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get better (third-person singular simple present gets better, present participle getting better, simple past got better, past participle (US) gotten better or (UK) got better)

1. (intransitive, literally) To improve.
2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
   • 1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote):

     [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch?

     [Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt!

     [Sir Bedevere]: A newt?

     [Peasant]: ... I got better.

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