GET OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get over mean? 

• GET OVER (verb)
  The verb GET OVER has 4 senses:

1. travel across or pass over

2. to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end

3. improve in health

4. get on top of; deal with successfully

  Familiarity information: GET OVER used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel across or pass over

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse

Context example:

The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get over"):

tramp (cross on foot)

stride (cover or traverse by taking long steps)

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

crisscross (cross in a pattern, often random)

ford (cross a river where it's shallow)

bridge (cross over on a bridge)

jaywalk (cross the road at a red light)

drive; take (proceed along in a vehicle)

course (move swiftly through or over)

hop (traverse as if by a short airplane trip)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

To bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task

Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):

accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill (put in effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Improve in health

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bounce back; get over; get well

Context example:

He got well fast

Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Get on top of; deal with successfully

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

get over; master; overcome; subdue; surmount

Context example:

He overcame his shyness

Hypernyms (to "get over" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get over"):

bulldog (throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

"That will be a hard climb," said the Scarecrow, "but we must get over the hill, nevertheless."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"I'd give anything to see you get over it," she broke out impulsively.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“How shall we get over?” said Chanticleer.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The road narrowed down at the point, so that it was obvious that the two carriages abreast could not possibly get over.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That’s why I want to get over the water as soon as you do.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He's been through so many little trials of the sort, he's used to it, and will soon get over his lovelornity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I could not get over this farewell glimpse of them for a long time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Anne could not immediately get over the shock and mortification of finding such words applied to her father.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Churchill would never get over it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)