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LIVE OVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does live over mean?
• LIVE OVER (verb)
The verb LIVE OVER has 1 sense:
1. experience again, often in the imagination
Familiarity information: LIVE OVER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experience again, often in the imagination
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
live over; relive
Context example:
He relived the horrors of war
Hypernyms (to "live over" is one way to...):
experience; know; live (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
"Much better." I turned again to my new acquaintance. "This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host. I live over there—" I waved my hand at the invisible hedge in the distance, "and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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