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TO GET OVER

Definition: TO GET OVER

TO GET OVER

1. (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO GET OVER

English words defined with "TO GET OVER": Overget. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO GET OVER": Diplomatic Cold. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO GET OVER

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Screenplays

I know, I'm still trying to get over yesterday. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I've had time to get over it. (U Turn; writing credit: John Ridley)

Personally, I'm not into that, but lot's of folks seem to get over the hump and keep fueling the domestic fires. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Lyrics

It's a hurting thing to get over (Brokenhearted; performing artist: Brandy)

Even if it takes a lifetime to get over you (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian)

I bet you're hard to get over (If You're Gone; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

Why should I try, I don't want to get over you (Keep Coming Back; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO GET OVER

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The time it takes to get over side effects depends on many things, including your overall health and the kind of chemotherapy you have been taking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: TO GET OVER

Expression using "TO GET OVER": help to get over. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO GET OVER

Language Translations for "TO GET OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

hinwegkommen (get over, live down). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlteszi magát vmin (to face down sg), túljut (to pass), kihever (to live down, to recover), elfelejt (forget, to unlearn, unlearn, unlearnt), átvisz (carry forward, take across, take over, to carry forward, to carry over, to put over, to take over, to transfer, to transfuse, to transmit, transfer), átjuttat (get over), átjut (get over, scrape through, to get across, to negotiate), átesik (to come through). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

乗り切る (to get through, to overcome, to ride across, to sail across, to tide over, to weather), 切り抜ける (to cut one's way through, to struggle through, to tide over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きりぬける (to cut one's way through, to struggle through, to tide over), のりきる (to get through, to overcome, to ride across, to sail across, to tide over, to weather). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etgay overay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO GET OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-o-o-r-t-t-v"

-3 letters: getter, groove, grotto, revote, tooter, trevet, vetoer.

-4 letters: egret, ergot, evert, greet, grove, otter, overt, revet, rotte, torot, torte, toter, trove, verge, voter.

-5 letters: eger, ergo, ever, goer, gore, gree, grot, ogee, ogre, otto, over, rete, root, rote, roto, rove, toot, tore, toro, tort, tote, tree, tret, trot, veer, vert, veto, vote.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-o-o-r-t-t-v"
 

+5 letters: overprotecting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO GET OVER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      47 45 54      4F 56 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01000101 01010100 00100000 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0047 0045 0054      004F 0056 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492413954249563952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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