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Get over   /gɛt ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Get over

verb
1.
Travel across or pass over.  Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, pass over, track, traverse.
2.
To bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end.  "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"
3.
Improve in health.  Synonyms: bounce back, get well.
4.
Get on top of; deal with successfully.  Synonyms: master, overcome, subdue, surmount.






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"Get over" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good dinner for eight people. He went on his errand, and I summoned the girls to their mother's bedside, and delighted them all by telling them that for the next twenty-four hours they were to make good cheer. They could not get over their surprise at the suddenness of the change I had worked ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... hands back to see if the bullock was still alive, if so and unable to travel, to kill him and have him jerked, and if dead to have him skinned. They brought back word that he was still alive and might get over it. Late getting ready to start owing to the uncertainty whether the bullock was to be jerked or not. Bullocks started at 10.35 a.m., and if I get feed must make a short day of it. If the road keeps as heavy as it has done since coming to this creek I shall ...
— McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia • John McKinlay

... square. The tint at last ought at least to be as close and even as that in b, Fig. 1. You will find, however, that it is very difficult to get a pale tint; because, naturally, the ink lines necessary to produce a close tint at all, blacken the paper more than you want. You must get over this difficulty not so much by leaving the lines wide apart as by trying to draw them excessively fine, lightly and swiftly; being very cautious in filling in; and, at last, passing the penknife over ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... for you, Dory. I don't want him to know we are on board of the boat till we get over to the other side of the lake," added Peppers. "He will look into this cabin the first thing he does after he comes on board. Can't you give us the key, and let us ...
— All Adrift - or The Goldwing Club • Oliver Optic

... struck four, I thought it time for me to go. Wordsworth told me to say to his friends in America, that he and his wife were well; that they had had a great grief of late, in the loss of their only daughter, which he supposed they would never get over. This explained, as I have already mentioned, the sadness of his manner. Such strength of the affections in old age we rarely see. And yet the Poet has himself condemned, as you remember, in 'The Excursion,' long and persevering grief for objects of our love 'removed from this ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth


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