over : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite having come or been brought to a conclusion
  concluded; terminated; complete; over; ended.
  
  • the harvesting was complete
  • the affair is over, ended, finished
  • the abruptly terminated interview
• adverb over the entire area
  over.
  
  • the wallpaper was covered all over with flowers
  • she ached all over
  • everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot
• adverb to or in any or all places; (`everyplace' is used informally for `everywhere')
  everyplace; everywhere.
  
  • You find fast food stores everywhere
  • people everywhere are becoming aware of the problem
  • he carried a gun everywhere he went
  • looked all over for a suitable gift

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• . (a) Over the whole; upon all parts; completely; as, he is spatterd with mud all over. (b) Wholly over; at an end; as, it is all over with him.
• over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. Colloq.

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• verb form an arch over
  overarch.
  
  • Big rocks overarch the stream

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• verb invite someone to one's house
  invite; ask round.
  
  • Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?

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• verb surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
  take aback; shock; blow out of the water; floor.
  
  • I was floored when I heard that I was promoted

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• verb try very hard to please someone
  bend over backwards.
  
  • She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law

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• verb order a defendant to be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceedings against him or her
  
  • The defendant was bound over for trial

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• verb disappear gradually
  fade; pass; evanesce; fleet; pass off.
  
  • The pain eventually passed off

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• verb overflow or cause to overflow while boiling
  overboil.
  
  • The milk is boiling over

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• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  tip over; tump over; upset; knock over; overturn; bowl over.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer
• verb overcome with amazement
  boggle; flabbergast.
  
  • This boggles the mind!

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• verb wall up with brick
  brick up; brick in.
  

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• verb suffice for a period between two points
  keep going; bridge over.
  
  • This money will keep us going for another year
• verb connect or reduce the distance between
  bridge.
  

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• verb flow or run over (a limit or brim)
  run over; overflow; brim over; overrun.
  

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• verb overflow with a certain feeling
  bubble over; overflow.
  
  • The children bubbled over with joy
  • My boss was bubbling over with anger

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• adjective satellite destroyed or badly damaged by fire
  burned; burnt-out; burnt; burned-out.
  
  • a row of burned houses
  • a charred bit of burnt wood
  • a burned-over site in the forest
  • barricaded the street with burnt-out cars

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• verb heel over
  tilt; cant; slant; pitch.
  
  • The tower is tilting
  • The ceiling is slanting

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• verb transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another
  
• verb transport from one place or state to another
  
  • Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal
• verb hold over goods to be sold for the next season
  carry over.
  
• verb transfer from one time period to the next
  carry forward.
  

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• noun application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
  transfer of training; transfer.
  
• noun the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves
  carry-forward.
  

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• verb make a shift in or exchange of; then we switched"
  shift; switch.
  
  • First Joe led
• verb change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
  convert.
  
  • We converted from 220 to 110 Volt

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• verb examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
  check into; suss out; check over; check up on; look into; check out; check.
  
  • check the brakes
  • Check out the engine

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• verb reflect deeply on a subject
  ponder; ruminate; mull; muse; reflect; contemplate; meditate; chew over; mull over; excogitate; speculate.
  
  • I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  • philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  • The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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• verb become covered with clouds
  overcloud; cloud up.
  
  • The sky clouded over
• verb become overcast
  
  • the sky clouded over

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• verb communicate the intended meaning or impression
  come across.
  
  • He came across very clearly

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• noun the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis
  crossover.
  

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• verb transfer by deed
  grant.
  
  • grant land

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• verb bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
  double up; double.
  
  • He doubled and vomited violently

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• verb envy without restraint
  drool over.
  

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• verb display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards
  
  • This student falls all over her former professor when she sees him

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• verb fall forward and down
  fall over.
  
  • The old woman went over without a sound

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• verb try very hard to please someone
  bend over backwards.
  
  • She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law

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• verb become glassy; lose clear vision
  film over; blur.
  
  • Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep

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• verb turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
  flip over; flip.
  
  • flip over the pork chop
  • turn over the pancakes

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• verb to surrender someone or something to another
  render; deliver; fork over; turn in; fork up; fork out.
  
  • the guard delivered the criminal to the police
  • render up the prisoners
  • render the town to the enemy
  • fork over the money

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• verb become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window
  ice up; frost over.
  
  • When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane

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• verb travel across or pass over
  traverse; track; get across; cover; cross; cut through; get over; cut across.
  
  • The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
• verb to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end
  
  • Let's get this job over with
  • It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task
• verb improve in health
  bounce back; get well.
  
  • He got well fast
• verb get on top of; deal with successfully
  master; subdue; overcome; surmount.
  
  • He overcame his shyness

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• noun trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
  field balm; ground ivy; runaway robin; Nepeta hederaceae; Glechoma hederaceae; alehoof.
  

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• verb look at with a critical eye
  give the eye.
  
  • When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over

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• verb examine hastily
  rake; skim; run down; scan.
  
  • She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi

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• verb become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
  glass; glass over; glaze.
  
  • Her eyes glaze over when she is bored

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• verb become glassy; lose clear vision
  film over; blur.
  
  • Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep
• verb become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
  glass; glass over; glaze.
  
  • Her eyes glaze over when she is bored

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• verb treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
  slur over; skimp over; gloss over; skate over.
  
• verb cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
  hush up; whitewash; gloss over.
  
  • Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
  • She tried to gloss over her mistakes

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• verb hold a review (of troops)
  survey; review.
  
• verb happen in a particular manner
  come off; go off.
  
  • how did your talk go over?
• verb examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
  check into; suss out; check over; check up on; look into; check out; check.
  
  • check the brakes
  • Check out the engine
• verb fall forward and down
  fall over.
  
  • The old woman went over without a sound

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• noun a careful and thorough inspection
  
• noun a severe scolding
  dressing down; upbraiding; castigation; earful; bawling out; chewing out.
  

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• verb cover with grass
  grass.
  

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• verb grow beyond or across
  overgrow.
  
  • The ivy overgrew the patio

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• covered with a growth.

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• half drunk. Colloq. Spectator.

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• adjective satellite British informal for `intoxicated'
  

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• verb to surrender someone or something to another
  render; deliver; fork over; turn in; fork up; fork out.
  
  • the guard delivered the criminal to the police
  • render up the prisoners
  • render the town to the enemy
  • fork over the money

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• adverb at a tremendous rate
  
  • made money hand over fist

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• (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.

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• by passing the hands alternately one before or above another; as, to climb hand over hand; also, rapidly; as, to come up with a chase hand over hand.

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• negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does. Obs. Bacon.

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• noun the act of passing something to another person
  passage.
  

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• verb go back over
  rehash; retrograde.
  
  • retrograde arguments

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• verb make less visible or unclear
  befog; fog; becloud; obscure; mist; obnubilate; cloud.
  
  • The stars are obscured by the clouds
  • the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley

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• adverb in disorderly haste
  head over heels; topsy-turvily; topsy-turvy; in great confusion.
  
  • we ran head over heels toward the shelter

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• adverb in disorderly haste
  head over heels; topsy-turvily; topsy-turvy; in great confusion.
  
  • we ran head over heels toward the shelter

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• verb intimidate somebody (with a threat)
  
  • She was holding it over him
• verb hold over goods to be sold for the next season
  carry over.
  
• verb keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
  
• verb continue a term of office past the normal period of time
  
• verb hold back to a later time
  prorogue; set back; defer; remit; put off; shelve; table; postpone; hold over.
  
  • let's postpone the exam

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• verb round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
  hump; hunch forward; hunch.
  

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• verb become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window
  ice up; frost over.
  
  • When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane

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• verb turn over and fall
  
  • the man had a heart attack and keeled over

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• noun annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
  prince's-plume; Polygonum orientale; princess feather; prince's-feather.
  

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• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  tip over; tump over; upset; knock over; overturn; bowl over.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer

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• verb interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight
  lay over.
  
  • We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil
• verb place on top of
  superimpose; superpose.
  
  • can you superimpose the two images?

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• adjective satellite not used up
  unexpended; leftover; odd; remaining; left.
  
  • leftover meatloaf
  • she had a little money left over so she went to a movie
  • some odd dollars left
  • saved the remaining sandwiches for supper
  • unexpended provisions

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• verb delay
  dwell on.
  

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• verb experience again, often in the imagination
  relive.
  
  • He relived the horrors of war

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• verb be oriented in a certain direction
  overlook; look out on; look across.
  
  • The house looks out on a tennis court
  • The apartment overlooks the Hudson

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• noun a swift cursory examination or inspection
  look-over.
  
  • I gave him the once-over

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• verb act like the master of
  lord it over; put on airs; act superior.
  
  • He is lording it over the students

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• noun (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
  maiden.
  

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• verb use again in altered form
  rework; retread.
  
  • retread an old plot
• verb make new
  refashion; redo; remake.
  
  • She is remaking her image

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• verb become covered with mist
  mist.
  
  • The windshield misted over

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• verb form mounds over
  
  • The huts can be mounded over to form shelters
• verb form a mound over
  

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• adjective having a wound formed over it
  

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• verb move in order to make room for someone for something
  ease up; give way; yield; give.
  
  • The park gave way to a supermarket
  • `Move over,' he told the crowd

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• verb reflect deeply on a subject
  ponder; ruminate; mull; muse; reflect; contemplate; meditate; chew over; mull over; excogitate; speculate.
  
  • I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  • philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  • The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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• noun a swift cursory examination or inspection
  look-over.
  
  • I gave him the once-over

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• adverb anew
  once more; again; once again.
  
  • she tried again
  • they rehearsed the scene again

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• once more; with repetition; afresh; anew. Dryden.

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• opposite; in front. Addison.

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• (Her.), placed over or upon other bearings, and therefore hinding them in part; said of a charge.

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• in a manner, or degree, beyond what is supposed, defined, or usual; besides; in addition; as, not over and above well. "He . . . gained, over and above, the good will of all people." L' Estrange.

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• adverb repeatedly
  over and over; again and again; time and time again; time and again.
  
  • the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text

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• repeatedly; again and again.

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• adverb repeatedly
  over and over; again and again; time and time again; time and again.
  
  • the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text

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• beyond one's depth; completely; wholly; hopelessly; as, over head and ears in debt. = head over heels Colloq.

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• adverb in a specified area or place
  up here.
  
  • you shouldn't be up here

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• noun a security traded in the over-the-counter market
  unlisted security; OTC security.
  

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• noun stock that is not listed and traded on an organized exchange
  OTC stock; unlisted stock.
  

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• . See under Left.

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O"ver-arm` adjective

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1. (Cricket, etc.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard. "An over-arm with a round-arm bowler." R. A. Proctor.

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O"ver-bus"y adjective

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1. Too busy; officious.

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• verb make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
  overcompensate.
  

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• noun excessive crowding
  congestion.
  
  • traffic congestion

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• adjective satellite excessively elaborate or showily expressed
  purple; empurpled.
  
  • a writer of empurpled literature
  • many purple passages
  • an over-embellished story of the fish that got away

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O"ver-gar`ment noun

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1. An outer garment.

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• verb refine too much or with excess of subtlety
  overrefine.
  
  • He is overrefining this matter

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O`ver-sto`ry noun

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1. (Arch.) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

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• adjective purchasable without a doctor's prescription
  nonprescription.
  
  • nonprescription drugs
  • an over-the-counter cold remedy
• adjective satellite (of securities) not traded on a stock exchange
  otc.
  
  • over-the-counter stocks

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• noun a drug that is sold without a prescription
  over-the-counter drug.
  

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• noun a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange
  OTC market.
  

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• noun a drug that is sold without a prescription
  over-the-counter drug.
  

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• adjective satellite too old to be useful
  overage; overaged; superannuated.
  
  • He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope

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• noun a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target
  

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• adjective satellite far more than usual or expected
  extraordinary; sinful.
  
  • an extraordinary desire for approval
  • it was an over-the-top experience

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• verb bypass
  jump; pass over; skip.
  
  • He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible
• verb make a passage or journey from one place to another
  move through; transit; pass through; pass across.
  
  • The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs
  • "Some travelers pass through the desert
• verb travel across or pass over
  traverse; track; get across; cover; cross; cut through; get over; cut across.
  
  • The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
• verb fly over
  overfly.
  
  • The plane passed over Damascus
• verb rub with a circular motion
  wipe.
  
  • wipe the blackboard
  • He passed his hands over the soft cloth

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• verb separate or remove
  sieve out.
  
  • The customer picked over the selection

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• verb cover with planks
  plank.
  
  • The streets were planked

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• verb apply a heavy coat to
  stick on; plaster.
  

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• noun reading carefully with intent to remember
  perusal; perusing; studying.
  

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• verb print (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper
  overprint.
  

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• verb steer a vehicle to the side of the road
  
  • The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed

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• verb conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
  lead by the nose; play false; snow; hoodwink; bamboozle.
  
  • He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well

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• verb fool or hoax
  fool; put on; gull; take in; dupe; befool; cod; put one across; slang.
  
  • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
  • You can't fool me!

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• verb communicate successfully
  get across.
  
  • I couldn't get across the message
  • He put over the idea very well
• verb hold back to a later time
  prorogue; set back; defer; remit; put off; shelve; table; postpone; hold over.
  
  • let's postpone the exam

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• verb try to solve
  

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• verb act like the master of
  lord it over; put on airs; act superior.
  
  • He is lording it over the students

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• noun (Judaism) a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of Tishri to celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of readings of the Torah
  Rejoicing of the Law; Rejoicing in the Law; Simhat Torah; Simhath Torah; Simchas Torah; Shimchath Torah; Simchat Torah.
  

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• verb make a rolling motion or turn
  
  • The dog rolled over
• verb negociate to repay a loan at a later date for an additional fee
  
  • roll over a loan
• verb re-invest (a previous investment) into a similar fund or security
  
  • She rolled over her IRA

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• verb injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
  run down.
  
• verb flow or run over (a limit or brim)
  run over; overflow; brim over; overrun.
  

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• verb formally assign ownership of
  sign away.
  
  • She signed away her rights

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• verb treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
  slur over; skimp over; gloss over; skate over.
  

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• verb read superficially
  skim.
  
• verb move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
  skim.
  

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• verb treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
  slur over; skimp over; gloss over; skate over.
  

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• verb grow new skin over an injury
  

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• verb bypass
  jump; pass over; skip.
  
  • He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible

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• verb cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
  hush up; whitewash; gloss over.
  
  • Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin
  • She tried to gloss over her mistakes

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• verb stay overnight
  sleep over.
  
  • The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over after the birthday party

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• verb envy without restraint
  drool over.
  

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• verb treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
  slur over; skimp over; gloss over; skate over.
  

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• verb treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
  slur over; skimp over; gloss over; skate over.
  

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• verb overflow with a certain feeling
  bubble over; overflow.
  
  • The children bubbled over with joy
  • My boss was bubbling over with anger
• verb be disgorged
  spill out; pour out.
  
  • The crowds spilled out into the streets

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• verb form a cover over
  cover.
  
  • The grass covered the grave

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• verb stay overnight
  sleep over.
  
  • The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over after the birthday party

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• verb interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight
  lay over.
  
  • We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil
• verb interrupt a trip
  stop.
  
  • we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
  • they stopped for three days in Florence

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Stop"-o`ver adjective

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1. Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. Railroad Cant, U.S.

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• verb overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  overtake; overwhelm; overpower; whelm; overcome.
  

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• verb influence decisively
  swing.
  
  • This action swung many votes over to his side

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• verb change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
  switch; exchange.
  

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• verb seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
  assume; arrogate; usurp; seize.
  
  • He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
  • he usurped my rights
  • She seized control of the throne after her husband died
• verb take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  assume; take on; adopt.
  
  • When will the new President assume office?
• verb free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
  relieve.
  
• verb take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  assume; accept; bear.
  
  • I'll accept the charges
  • She agreed to bear the responsibility
• verb take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
  buy out; buy up.
  
• verb do over
  repeat.
  
  • They would like to take it over again
• verb take up and practice as one's own
  adopt; take up; borrow.
  
• verb take up, as of debts or payments
  absorb.
  
  • absorb the costs for something

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• noun acquisition of property by descent or by will
  succession.
  

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• verb speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
  hash out; discuss.
  
  • We discussed our household budget

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• verb reflect deeply on a subject
  ponder; ruminate; mull; muse; reflect; contemplate; meditate; chew over; mull over; excogitate; speculate.
  
  • I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  • philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  • The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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• verb run disconnected or idle
  idle.
  
  • the engine is idling

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• verb suffice for a period between two points
  keep going; bridge over.
  
  • This money will keep us going for another year

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• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  tip over; tump over; upset; knock over; overturn; bowl over.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer
• verb turn from an upright or normal position
  tump over; overturn; tip over.
  
  • The big vase overturned
  • The canoe tumped over

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• to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc.

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• to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over.

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• to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.

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• to overflow; to go beyond limits.

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• (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.

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• . (a) To fetch or bear across. (b) To convert by persuasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion.

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• to recite separate particulars in order, as a roll of names.

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• See under Come, Do, Give, etc.

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• . (a) To pass from one side or place to another. "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them." Addison. (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

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• to join.

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• to exult over a vanquished antagonist.

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• . (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe.

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• to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one.

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• . (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. Shak.

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• to hand or pay over, as money. Slang

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• to draw to one's party or interest; to win over.

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• . (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.

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• . (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).

  The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. Grew.

• to cease; to discontinue; to desist.

  It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame. Addison.

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• to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner.

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• . (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

  I must not go over Jordan. Deut. iv. 22.

  Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25.

  Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. Jer. xli. 10.

  (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

  If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. Tillotson.

  (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose.

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• to die.

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• to yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up.

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• . (a) To project at the top. (b) To impend over.

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• to call to account; to scold or censure. Colloq.

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• to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle.

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• to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date.

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• to upset; to capsize. Colloq.

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• to spread over; to cover.

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• . (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body.

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• to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee.

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• to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.
• to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.

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• to hurry over. Obs. Fuller.

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• . (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer .

  For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truth put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. Shak.

  (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river .
• (Naut.), to sail over or across.

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• (Mach.), to have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
• . (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily . (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.

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• . (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector, ruler, or commander. (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

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• to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme. "They will but slight it over."

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• to stop at a station beyond the time of the departure of the train on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train; to break one's journey. Railroad Cant, U.S.

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• to undertake; to take the management of. Eng. Cross (Life of G. Eliot).

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• . (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.

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• to abandon; to betray. Cf. To throw overboard, under Overboard.
• to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties.

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• to overturn.

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• . (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. "We turned o'er many books together." Shak. (d) To handle in business; to do business to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. Colloq.
• to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble.

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• to make a radical change for the better in one's way of living or doing. Colloq.

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• in racing, to go over a course at a walk; said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest. = to win in a walk.

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• to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend, and guard.

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• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  tip over; tump over; upset; knock over; overturn; bowl over.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer
• verb turn from an upright or normal position
  tump over; overturn; tip over.
  
  • The big vase overturned
  • The canoe tumped over

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• verb place into the hands or custody of
  give; reach; hand; pass; pass on.
  
  • hand me the spoon, please
  • Turn the files over to me, please
  • He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  tip over; tump over; upset; knock over; overturn; bowl over.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer
• verb move by turning over or rotating
  roll.
  
  • The child rolled down the hill
  • turn over on your left side
• verb turn up, loosen, or remove earth
  delve; dig; cut into.
  
  • Dig we must
  • turn over the soil for aeration
• verb do business worth a certain amount of money
  
  • The company turns over ten million dollars a year
• verb cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
  turn.
  
  • turn a page of a book
• verb turn from an upright or normal position
  tump over; overturn; tip over.
  
  • The big vase overturned
  • The canoe tumped over
• verb turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
  flip over; flip.
  
  • flip over the pork chop
  • turn over the pancakes
• verb think about carefully; weigh
  moot; deliberate; consider; debate.
  
  • They considered the possibility of a strike
  • Turn the proposal over in your mind

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• noun the voice on an unseen commentator in a film of television program
  

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• verb beat easily
  
  • The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship

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Walk"-o`ver noun

Definitions

1. In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory. = a walk; a cake-walk.

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• verb follow with the eyes or the mind
  follow; observe; watch; keep an eye on.
  
  • Keep an eye on the baby, please!
  • The world is watching Sarajevo
  • She followed the men with the binoculars

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• verb flow or run over (a limit or brim)
  run over; overflow; brim over; overrun.
  

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• verb make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
  convert; convince.
  
  • He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product

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• verb give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
  beat; beat up.
  
  • Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
  • The teacher used to beat the students

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