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Over

adverb

At or to a point across intervening space etc.. "Over there"

Throughout an area.

Throughout a period of time. Synonym: o'er.

Beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position.

Over the entire area. Synonym: all over. "She ached all over" , "Everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot"

noun

(cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch.

adjective

Having come or been brought to a conclusion. Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, terminated. "The affair is over, ended, finished" , "The abruptly terminated interview"

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"Over" Quotes from Famous Books

... and had sized the thing all up, it looked like I'd got in over my head. I was due to stand for some kind of a racket, but whether it was a picnic, or a surprise party, I didn't know. What I wanted just then was information, and for certain kinds of ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... the boat was steered across the stream, down which it drifted about 200 yards into shallow water, where the boatmen jumped out and towed us to a convenient landing-place. Here we found several people waiting to be ferried over. A troop of mules having been driven into the water, which they seemed rather to enjoy, swam across safely, though they were carried some distance down ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey

... brother, against whom the English have conspired along with thy wretched mother, the sword shall not depart from thy house, raging against thee all the days of thy life, destroying thy seed until the day when thy Kingdom shall be conveyed to another Kingdom whose customs and language the race over whom thou rulest knoweth not; nor shall there be expiation save by long-continued penalty of the sin of thyself, of thy mother, and of those men who took part in that shameful deed. Which things ...

— Old St. Paul's Cathedral • William Benham

... man reason, philosophy, nature, piety, laws, reputation and everything that can serve to conduct him to virtue; but superstition destroys all these, and erects itself into a tyranny over the understandings of men; hence atheism never disturbs the government, but renders man more clear-sighted, since he sees nothing beyond the boundaries of ...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer • Charles Sotheran

... the glans only is free and erection is impossible. Chretien cites an instance in a man of twenty-five, and Schrumpf of Wesserling describes an example of this rare anomaly. The penis and testes were inclosed in a common sac, a slight projection not over 1/4 inch long being seen from the upper part of this curious scrotum. When the child was a year old a plastic operation was performed on this anomalous member with a very satisfactory result. Petit describes an instance in which the penis was ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

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