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What do people use over to talk about?
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What words refer to falling from a standing position?
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What words refer to something falling onto its side?
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What words refer to causing someone to fall?
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What words refer to causing something to fall?
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What words refer to doing something again?
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What words indicate that something is done many times?
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What words indicate an amount that is more than an amount already mentioned?
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What words indicate that the actual number is more than a particular number?
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What words describe something that is full and overflowing?
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What words indicate that something happened during some time period?
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What words indicate that something is above something else?
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What words refer to examining something?
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What words refer to saying something many times?
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What words refer to repeating an important part of a speech?
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What words refer to acting in such a way that someone is led to believe something false?deceive fool take in defraud cheat fleece bilk swindle hustle dupe hoodwink foist upon palm off on outwit outmaneuver finagle slip one over on put something over on con lay a trap for lure beguile delude trick entrap ensnare pull the wool over someone's eyes play a trick on play a practical joke on send on a fool's errand make a fool of mislead
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What words refer to bending down?
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What words describe someone who is bent over?
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What words refer to jumping over something?
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What words refer to moving over something?
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What words refer to looking at something for a short time?
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What words refer to looking quickly at many things or a large area?
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What words refer to recovering from a disease?
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What words refer to being healthy after being sick?
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What words refer to thinking about something for a period of time?think about brood cogitate consider give consideration to contemplate meditate muse mull over occupy your mind ponder reconsider reflect reflection ruminate speculate study weigh wonder go around in your mind do some thinking keep your mind on have something on your mind deduce deduction induction inductive logic apply yourself pay attention bethink conclude observe process reason theorize
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What words refer to thinking before making a decision?
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What words refer to controlling someone or something?
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What words refer to feeling worried?
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What words refer to not being worried?
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What words refer to speaking too long?
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What words describe something that has been said so often that people think it is stupid?
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What words refer to reading quickly?
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What words refer to reading carefully?
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What words refer to knocking a container over so that it spills its contents?
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What words refer to pulling something onto you?
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What words refer to turning something so the bottom side is up?
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What words refer to striking something repeatedly?
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What words describe how many clouds are in the sky?
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What words refer to water turning into ice?
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What words are used to talk about the whole world, all the countries, or all the people?
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What do waves do when they hit the shore?
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What words refer to watching something continuously?
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What words refer to feeling something with your whole body?
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What words describe a person who is sick?
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What words refer to muscles cramping from pain?
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What words refer loving someone very much?
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What words refer to a baby moving?
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What words refer to time periods of adulthood?
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What words refer to being too old to do something?
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What words are used to describe the manner in which someone dies?drop dead keel over slow death sudden death painful death excruciating death gruesome death horrible death die quietly die peacefully die with boots on die fighting fade away succumb (to illness) drown drowning asphyxiate suffocate choke to death sacrifice succumb (to a disease) suffocate suffocation starvation starve starve to death burn to death freeze to death
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What words refer to a person in authority ignoring what is good for the people under them?
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What words refer to many people protesting?
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What words refer to someone being persuaded to change his thinking or decision?
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What words refer to feeling very happy?
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What words refer to feeling very uninterested?
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What words refer to praising someone?
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What words refer to criticizing someone or something?criticize be critical be a critic of critique accuse attack launch into an attack on badmouth belittle blame carp cavil censure cite charge decry denounce deprecate deride disparage gibe harangue judge lay into mock rake someone over the coals recriminate reprehend reproach ridicule scoff speak evil of tear down (someone) voice your disapproval
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What do rumors do?
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What words refer to laughing for a long time?
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What words are used of causing people to meet together?
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What words refer to competing with someone?
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What words refer to spoiling an event?
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What words refer to changing your behavior for the better?
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What words refer to handing someone over to his enemies?
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What words refer to defeating an army or enemy in war?
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What words describe how thoroughly something has been cooked?
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What words refer to various ways of cooking food?
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What words refer to trying hard to do something for someone?
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What words refer to stealing things from a house or store?
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What words describe something that is leaning?
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What words refer to moving sideways?
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What words refer to climbing over something?
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What words refer to putting something above something else?
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What words refer to pushing something so that it falls over?
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What words refer to touching something?
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What words indicate that something happens or is done two times?
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What words refer to something remaining?
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What words refer to being taller than another thing?
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What words indicate how big an area is?
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What words indicate that something is far from something else?far far away far off afar far afield far and wide a far cry from far apart far removed distant be distant a long distance in the distance some distance a good distance a ways way off a long way (off) a long ways away a fair way quite a ways nowhere near miles (away) yonder wide of clear off all over asunder at arm's length on the horizon the ends of the earth uttermost parts of the earth
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What words describe how deep something is for a person?
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What words refer to folding something?
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What do people say when they want someone to do something in a short time?
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What words indicate that something happens for a long time?
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What words refer to all the people of the same age?
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Examples over examples
How do I use over in a sentence?
Simple sentences
The sky clouded over.
I am afraid to jump over the ditch.
I was nearly run over by a car.
We got the meeting over with quickly.
I've been waiting for you for over an hour.
A helicopter circled over us.
It's almost over.
He will take over the business when his father retires.
The boy standing over there is my son.
The worst is over.
We live in that apartment just over the street.
What are you going to do over the weekend?
His horse jumped over the fence.
I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.
I lived in Nagoya for over a month.
It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.
It would be fun to see how things change over the years.
The vacation is over now.
It's over between us. Give me back my ring!
Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists for their reprehensible deed.
What happened? There's water all over the apartment.
There's no point in arguing over tastes.
My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.
Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers.
I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp.
I've got mosquito bites all over my arm.
The sky is over our heads.
I had a quarrel with him over money.
Movie subtitles
All the guys in my family and neighborhood have been drooling over her.
This is Yoon's house and our house is over here.
You flew over us several times, You know very well where we are.
The opponent is an empire which has subdued over a third of the world.
There are some unpleasant rumors now spreading about Princess Euphemia over this.
Over twenty thousand people have applied to join the Nippon special zone.
Will the Japan they hand over have any value?
Can you send him and the test unit over there after I make arrangements there?
What's come over you?
They ruled over a land that was in some ways still mired in the Dark Ages.
For centuries, the old spice route ran from the Indian Ocean over land across the Arabian peninsula, into the Ottoman Empire, and then from Venice into Europe.
Over time, the effect was to raise productivity, incomes, nutrition and even height.
A church that even now sends missionaries out all over the world!
Well of course we don't really have final say over where we get sent, but. I have been praying to be sent to my favorite place in the whole world.
What's come over you?!
Oort wanted to detect and analyse that emission too, as soon as the war was over.
The receiver changed frequency very slowly over a one or two hour period.
He's over there.
Let's leave for Africa, for the Regency of Algiers over which the French flag now flies.
God is watching over me.
Your convent's been here over 200 years - and you don't speak Arabic?
He hasn't heard from you in over a month.
Watch over my son.
I'll watch over him.
A catcher's a kid who catches bags of PBJs that someone throws over the fence into the yard.
I'm saying you should take it over and do it right.
Shouldn't you be over there with your new friends?
You fucking screwed over your best friend.
Then the kids would turn against Frankie, and I could take over the peanut racket.
And since you won't take responsibility, as of today, I'm taking over the peanut racket, and I guarantee every sandwich I sell.
So, Nick, why did you decide to take over the PBJ racket?
Please, just think this over.
That's it. Game over.
Where's the box? -Over there.
Over here.
It's over there.
There it is, over there.
More over there!
News and current affairs
But if the human capacity for destruction knows few limits, the ability to start over again is just as remarkable.
Similar demands were heard all over Europe, where the anti-Nazi or anti-fascist resistance was often led by leftists, or indeed Communists, and prewar conservatives were frequently tainted by collaboration with fascist regimes.
The swing to the left, to social-democratic welfare states, occurred all over Western Europe.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.
For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.
As an Arabist by training, immersed in Arab and Muslim culture, he always hoped that the glorious Arab past could be rejuvenated, that an Arab and Muslim culture of tolerance could triumph over fanaticism and extremism.
The time for business as usual is over.
Bottom trawlers drag heavy nets over the ocean bottom, destroying magnificent, unexplored, and endangered marine species in the process.
Such areas not only permit the regeneration of species, but also provide ecological benefits that spill over to neighboring unprotected areas.
One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.
Indeed, in closing their skies, European governments seem to have given safety absolute priority over everything else.
And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
In 1989, liberal democracy triumphed over the socialist ideology incarnated and promoted by the Soviet Bloc.
The recently created European Banking Authority has only limited powers over national supervisors, whose daily work is guided mainly by national considerations.
Abroad, Egyptian lawmakers were so exercised over the prospect of the French head of state sharing a bed with his girlfriend that several vented their disapproval on the floor of the parliament.
Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much-heralded summit between two of the world's great democracies.
If he really is as head-over-heels in love with Bruni as he claims, and plans to marry her imminently, why not take advantage of his upcoming trip to India and make this a wedding to remember?
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.
And what happens in 2009 may jeopardize some of the positive results of 1989, including the peaceful reunification of Europe and the triumph of democratic principles over nationalist, if not xenophobic, tendencies.
So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president's very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?
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