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GO OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fall forward and down
Example:
The old woman went over without a sound
Synonyms:
fall over; go over
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "go over" is one way to...):
break down; collapse (collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Happen in a particular manner
Example:
how did your talk go over?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "go over" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 3
Meaning:
Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
Example:
Check out the engine
Synonyms:
check; check into; check out; check over; check up on; go over; look into; suss out
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "go over" is one way to...):
analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)
Verb group:
check; check off; mark; mark off; tick; tick off (put a check mark on or near or next to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go over"):
follow; keep an eye on; observe; watch; watch over (follow with the eyes or the mind)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They won't go over the story
Sense 4
Meaning:
Hold a review (of troops)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "go over" is one way to...):
inspect (look over carefully)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
Nicotine cravings are common after a person quits smoking and may come and go over time.
(Craving, NCI Dictionary)
Did not my father's brother go over into the Tanana Country and get killed by a bear? And did not the Tanana tribe pay my father many blankets and fine furs? It was just. It was bad hunting, and the Tanana people made payment for the bad hunting.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He told her that he would come, after all; that he would go over to San Francisco, to the Transcontinental office, collect the five dollars due him, and with it redeem his suit of clothes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I do not exactly know the distance, but when you get back to Portsmouth, if it is not very far off, you ought to go over and pay your respects to them; and I could send a little parcel by you that I want to get conveyed to your cousins.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an employment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“I shall probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That is really all that I can tell you, gentlemen, and I trust that it will not be necessary for me to go over so painful a story again.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I promised her that you would go over and see her to-morrow.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our eyes at those times often met; and my great astonishment is that I didn't go over the head of my gallant grey into the carriage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This suggests you will need to make tweaks and go over some points again to check for accuracy or to communicate more effectively.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
