Sentence:  If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down , squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge , you would <WSD>get</WSD> smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone , you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  enter or assume a certain state or condition