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Get over   /gɛt ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Get over

verb
1.
Travel across or pass over.  Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, pass over, track, traverse.
2.
To bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end.  "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"
3.
Improve in health.  Synonyms: bounce back, get well.
4.
Get on top of; deal with successfully.  Synonyms: master, overcome, subdue, surmount.






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"Get over" Quotes from Famous Books



... not get over the unpleasant impressions of the morning, so, rather than remain in her room this fine day, she had walked across the meadow, east of the mill-pond, to a farm-house, where she was a frequent and welcome visitor. On her way, she called for Lizzy Hardwick, the blacksmith's daughter, who accompanied ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

... "Still I've got a mind to stick it out a while," he drawled. "Accidents come in threes, they say, so there won't likely be another right soon. Well, I reckon I'd better be traveling. How long will it take that doctor man to get over?" ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand inforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for ...
— The Communist Manifesto • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

... least to be as close and even as that in b, Fig. 1. You will find, however, that it is very difficult to get a pale tint; because, naturally, the ink lines necessary to produce a close tint at all, blacken the paper more than you want. You must get over this difficulty not so much by leaving the lines wide apart as by trying to draw them excessively fine, lightly and swiftly; being very cautious in filling in; and, at last, passing the penknife over the whole. By keeping several squares ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... said Tom. "I can take off my shoes and socks. The water won't be much more than up to my knees after I get over the mud bar on which the boat ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods • Laura Lee Hope


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