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GET OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Improve in health
Example:
He got well fast
Synonyms:
bounce back; get over; get well
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):
ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Get on top of; deal with successfully
Example:
He overcame his shyness
Synonyms:
get over; master; overcome; subdue; surmount
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):
beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get over"):
bulldog (throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
To bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end
Example:
It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):
accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill (put in effect)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Travel across or pass over
Example:
The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
Synonyms:
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):
pass (go across or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get over"):
tramp (cross on foot)
stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)
walk (traverse or cover by walking)
crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)
ford (cross a river where it's shallow)
bridge (cross over on a bridge)
jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)
drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)
course (move swiftly through or over)
hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honeymoon, and then she would come and see me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"No, it must not get over," cried Lord John; "but hold your fire to the last. Perhaps I can make something of the fellow. I'll chance it, anyhow."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You would not have gone, however, said Elinor, recovering herself, and determined to get over what she so much dreaded as soon as possible, without receiving our good wishes, even if we had not been able to give them in person.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I had half started forward, to get over with what I was certain would be a stormy five minutes, when a more violent suffocating paroxysm seized the unfortunate person who was lying on his back.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There’s the village, said the driver, pointing to a cluster of roofs some distance to the left; but if you want to get to the house, you’ll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by the footpath over the fields.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Catherine trembled at the emphasis with which he spoke, and sat pale and breathless, in a most humble mood, concerned for his children, and detesting old chests; and the general, recovering his politeness as he looked at her, spent the rest of his time in scolding his daughter for so foolishly hurrying her fair friend, who was absolutely out of breath from haste, when there was not the least occasion for hurry in the world: but Catherine could not at all get over the double distress of having involved her friend in a lecture and been a great simpleton herself, till they were happily seated at the dinner-table, when the general's complacent smiles, and a good appetite of her own, restored her to peace.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You get too excited; but you will get over that with practice.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In this way we get over the objection that no one would take originals when he could make copies.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
