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Move over   /muv ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Move over

verb
1.
Move in order to make room for someone for something.  Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, yield.  "'Move over,' he told the crowd"






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"Move over" Quotes from Famous Books



... remarked Mrs. Yu, smiling, "are so friendly, that having met you couldn't possibly tear yourself away to come. You had better to-morrow move over there and take up your quarters with her and have done; but sit down and let me, first of all, present you a glass ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... attractive under certain conditions," Jane repeated. "I thought once I saw something move over this way. Let me look ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft

... distinctly heard, in a room than in the open air. I said that these reflected sounds entered the ear at the same time with the original: this however is not strictly the case, for they must enter the ear after the original, because the sound has a greater space to move over: but they enter the ear so quickly after the original that our sense cannot distinguish the difference. If however the reflecting body should be placed at such a distance, that the reflected sound should enter the ear some considerable ...
— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia - Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease • Thomas Garnett

... through which the attendant and the baron disappeared. The man who had followed Danglars sat down on a bench. The clerk continued to write for the next five minutes; the man preserved profound silence, and remained perfectly motionless. Then the pen of the clerk ceased to move over the paper; he raised his head, and appearing to be perfectly sure of privacy,—"Ah, ha," he ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... what they say? Nobody in the world believes you are a quitter, but it is your life that we must now consider. We must cancel the trip, and I am sure that when the people learn of your condition there will be no misunderstanding." He then tried to move over nearer to me to continue his argument against the cancellation of the trip; but he found he was unable to do so. His left arm and ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty


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