ALL OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all over mean? 

• ALL OVER (adjective)
  The adjective ALL OVER has 1 sense:

1. having come or been brought to a conclusion

  Familiarity information: ALL OVER used as an adjective is very rare.

• ALL OVER (adverb)
  The adverb ALL OVER has 2 senses:

1. over the entire area

2. to or in any or all places

  Familiarity information: ALL OVER used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL OVER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having come or been brought to a conclusion

Synonyms:

all over; complete; concluded; ended; over; terminated

Context example:

the abruptly terminated interview

Similar:

finished (ended or brought to an end)

• ALL OVER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Over the entire area

Synonyms:

all over; over

Context example:

everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot

Sense 2

Meaning:

To or in any or all places

Synonyms:

all over; everyplace; everywhere

Context example:

looked all over for a suitable gift

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

“It means that it is all over,” Holmes answered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She never do hard work. Her hands are soft, like baby's hand. She is soft all over, like baby.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I therefore smoked a great number of those excellent cigarettes, and I dropped the ash all over the space in front of the suspected bookcase.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We got on them before they could load, and they stood to it like men; but we had the upper hand of them, and in five minutes it was all over.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Will you have to begin all over?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So she rubbed them out, and drew little nosegays and likenesses of me and Jip, all over the tablets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His head and arms and shoulders ached, the small of his back ached,—he ached all over, and his brain was heavy and dazed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A question about whether an individual feels or felt weak all over.

(Feel Weak All Over, NCI Thesaurus)

Hair grows all over your body except on your lips, palms, and the soles of your feet.

(Hair Problems, NIH)