Meaning of go over | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
2. To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
   idiomatic, transitive
3. To create a response or impression.
   idiomatic, intransitive
4. To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
5. To encompass or cover (a subject).
   transitive
6. To score a try.
7. To pat down (someone) and then rob them.
   UK, dated, slang, transitive
8. To turn out successful; to be well-received.
   dated, intransitive, slang
9. To convert to Roman Catholicism.
   dated, intransitive
10. To convert or switch sides.
    broadly, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I'm going over to my friend's house.”

“Please go over the reports to make sure we haven't missed anything.”

“Playing a radio in the office did not go over well with his coworkers.”

“In first period, we're going over the basics of cell biology.”

“But in the closing stages Bishop spotted a gap to go over and Hook converted to set up a nervous finish for the Blues, who managed to hold on.”

“That's who went over the butcher.”

“That song really went over with the audience.”

“The sex lottery went over big in its first try with number runners selling tickets and making the entire affair a very hush-hush production.”

“He went over to the finance department's side in this dispute.”

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