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get in the way en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To obstruct, hinder, or interfere.
    • Ideology constantly gets in the way. For the Government, unions are militant "Trots" out to cause political trouble. For the unions, the private sector is a grasping, evil leech. Neither is true. 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
    • If we don't let nothing get in our way / We can make it to a brighter day / But I don't wanna miss the sign / So I need your light with mine 1973, Ashford & Simpson, “I Need Your Light”, in Gimme Someting Real:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
got in the way Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got in the way Tense=Past lexicographic
gets in the way Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
getting in the way Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
get in one's way alternative lexicographic
gotten in the way Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic

Relateds

in the way

Translations (29)

pl stanąć na zawadzie (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · de stören (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · ru помеша́ть (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pt atrapalhar (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · de hindern (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · hy խանգարել (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · es no dejar (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · de behindern (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · es interponerse (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · ru препя́тствовать (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl stać na przeszkodzie (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · grc ἐπιπροσθέω (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl stać na zawadzie (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl stać na drodze (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl stanąć na przeszkodzie (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · es no permitir (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · ru меша́ть (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · ru воспрепя́тствовать (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · de dazwischenkommen (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · es estorbar [al] (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · cmn 妨礙 /妨碍 (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl stawać na drodze (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl stanąć na drodze (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl wchodzić w paradę (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · la impedio (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · cmn 阻礙 /阻碍 (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · ja 邪魔になる (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · pl wejść w paradę (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere) · ja 妨げる (to obstruct, hinder, or interfere)