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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 imaginationplay

  Familiarity information: LIVE OVER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIVE OVER (verb)


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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