WELL OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well over mean? 

• WELL OVER (verb)
  The verb WELL OVER has 1 sense:

1. flow or run over (a limit or brim)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flow or run over (a limit or brim)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over

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

run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)

"Well over" entails doing...:

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

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

geyser (to overflow like a geyser)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Home and family-related matters will go well over December 15, plus or minus two days.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But all is now well over, quoth Harcomb, and no scath come of it, which is more than I had at one time hoped for.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Genetic analyses of well over 300,000 people confirmed that the variant, called SCARB1 P376L, was associated with elevated HDL-C levels.

(When HDL cholesterol doesn’t protect against heart disease, NIH)

In the 19th century, the Great Red Spot was well over two Earths wide.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

“Well, ma'am,” resumed Mr. Chillip, as soon as he had courage, “I am happy to congratulate you. All is now over, ma'am, and well over.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He leaned well over its neck as he rode, and made a heaving with his shoulders at every bound as though he were lifting the steed instead of it carrying him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Dancies came too and S. B. Whitebait, who was well over sixty, and Maurice A. Flink and the Hammerheads and Beluga the tobacco importer and Beluga's girls.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)