Over And Over

Definition: Over And Over

Over And Over

Adverb

1. Repeatedly; "the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Over And Over

Repetition

Again and again; over and over, over and over again; recursively; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time; frequently.

Crosswords: Over And Over

That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

That I want to make love to you - not just once, but over and over again! (Vita è bella, La; writing credit: Vincenzo Cerami ; Roberto Benigni)

You reach an age when you read the same few books over and over. (Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud; writing credit: Jacques Fieschi; Claude Sautet)

I mean, he just sits in his room, eating Froot Loops out of the box, saying your name over and over and over. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

I see it over and over (If Only; performing artist: Hanson)

Saying it over and over (If Only; performing artist: Hanson)

'Cuz over and over again (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt)

Over and over I've dreamed of this night (Could I Have This Kiss Forever; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them. (references; author: unknown)

Over and Over (performing artist: The Dave Clark Five)

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Books

• Love Gone Wrong: What to Do When You Are Attracted to the Wrong Person over and over (reference)

• Novella Box (Smith Experimental Fiction Project Including the Invisibles: Teak: The Same Thing Happening over and Over) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Almost a ton of lead in this small pile will be used over and over again. This lead was taken out of the locomotive drives wheels (see negative 1 [i.e 54699]) and is used to give wheel flywheel. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This, however, did not seem a very likely event, though the Gardener patiently tried all the small keys, over and over again.

Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over and over, and could make nothing of it.

he bellowed, "when the same thing kept happening, over and over and over again!

Cranly took a small grey handball from his pocket and began to examine it closely, turning it over and over.

Joad turned the meat over and over.

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Health

Chronic prostatitis means the prostate gets inflamed over and over again. (references)

The child gets "stuck" on things over and over and can't move on to other things. (references)

Autism is a complex biological disorder of development that lasts throughout a person's life. People with autism have problems with social interaction and communication, so they may have trouble holding a conversation with you, or they may not look you in the eye. They sometimes have behaviors that they have to do or that they do over and over, like not being able to listen until their pencils are lined up or saying the same sentence again and again. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "over and over": over and over again ♦ same story over and over again! ♦ say over and over again. Additional references.

Albanian

përveç (as well as, aside from, besides, beyond, but, except, excepting, saving). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تكرارا و مرارا, ‏تكرارا (frequently, repeatedly), ‏عدة مرات (repeatedly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

много пъти (over and over again, repeatedly). (various references)

Chinese 

反復 (repeatedly). (various references)

Czech

opakovat dokola (say over and over again). (various references)

Finnish

yhä uudestaan (over and over again, repeatedly), yhä uudelleen (again and again, over and over again, repeatedly), uudelleen (afresh, again, anew, once more, over and over again, repeatedly), monen monta kertaa (heaps of times, over and over again). (various references)

French

maintes fois, � maintes reprises. (various references)

German

immer wieder (again and again, perennially, repeatedly, time and (time) again, time and again). (various references)

Greek 

επαναλειμμένες φορές (again and again, over and over again). (various references)

Hebrew 

שוב ושוב (again and again). (various references)

Hungarian

ismételten (again, anew, over, over and over again, repeatedly, time and again, time and time again, to reconsider), újra és újra. (various references)

Indonesian

membalik-balik (turn over and over, turn repeatedly), membacai (pronounce, read over and over). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一再ならず (to over and over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっさいならず (to over and over). (various references)

Manx

harrish as tarrish. (various references)

Pig Latin

overay anday overay

Portuguese

repetidas vezes (repeatedly, time after time). (various references)

Romanian

veşnic acelaşi cântec (same story over and over again), în repetate rânduri (many time and oft, once and again, over and over again, time and again). (various references)

Russian 

снова и снова. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neprestano (incessantly, on and on, over and over again, permanently). (various references)

Spanish

una y otra vez (again and again). (various references)

Swedish

om och om igen (over and over again), gång på gång (over and over again, repeatedly, time after time, time and again). (various references)

Turkish

tekrar tekrar (again and again, always, repeatedly, scores of times, thrice, time after time, time and again), defalarca (again and again, always, fast, for the nth time, for the umpteenth time, heaps of times, numbers of times, repeatedly, scores of times, time after time, time and again, times without numbers, tons of times), üst üste (on end). (various references)

Ukrainian

знову й знову (again and again, through and through), багато разів (often, oftentimes, oft-times). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: overdrove.

-3 letters: endeavor, overdare, overdear, overdoer, overdone, overnear, overrode.

-4 letters: adorner, averred, overran, ravened, ravener, readorn, redrove.

-5 letters: adorer, darner, dearer, droner, drover, earned, earner, endear, errand, evader, neared, nearer, nerved, overdo, overed, reader, reared, reaved, reaver, redear, redone, reearn, render, reread, revved, roadeo, roared, varved, vender, vendor.