Lexic.us

Definition of Get over

1. Verb. Travel across or pass over. "These men get over the river"; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

2. Verb. To bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end. "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"

3. Verb. Improve in health. "He got well fast"

4. Verb. Get on top of; deal with successfully. "He overcame his shyness"

Definition of Get over

1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To overcome ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To recover (from) ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To forget and move on ¹

4. Verb. (rugby) To score a try ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Over

get one over on get onto get out get out of get out of Dodge get out of bed on the wrong side get out of here get out of jail free card get out of there get out of town

get out while the getting's good get outside get outta get outta here get over get over with get real get rid of get rolling get round to

get sick get someone's back up get someone's goat get someone's number get someone onto something get something off one's chest

Literary usage of Get over

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... ablo with their present force to prevent Unbuilding of the wall down to tho sou. mediately snatched up, and Lad time to get over the river into a place ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"People who are capable of taking a hint like that deserve a mail-boat From The Queen. GETTING OVER IT. " You will get over it. ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... misfortune or an evil day is to get over it For the time. Richard Grant White suggests that in the Shakespearian line Time and the hour runs through the ..."

4. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"... the largest size to reach Amsterdam without discharging a portion of their cargoes, which they were formerly obliged to do, in order to get over a bar. ..."

Other Resources: