go over
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Verb
[edit]go over (third-person singular simple present goes over, present participle going over, simple past went over, past participle gone over)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
- I'm going over to my friend's house.
- (idiomatic) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
- Please go over the reports to make sure we haven't missed anything.
- (idiomatic) To create a response or impression.
- Playing a radio in the office did not go over well with his coworkers.
- (graffiti) To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
- (transitive) To encompass or cover (a subject).
- In first period, we're going over the basics of cell biology.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- 2010 December 31, “Magners League: Cardiff Blues 27-25 Osprey”, in BBC[1]:
- 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.
- (transitive, slang, dated, UK) To pat down (someone) and then rob them.
- That's who went over the butcher.
- (intransitive, slang, dated) To turn out successful; to be well-received.
- That song really went over with the audience.
- (intransitive, dated) To convert to Roman Catholicism.
- (intransitive, by extension) To convert or switch sides.
- He went over to the finance department's side in this dispute.
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[edit]to scrutinise
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to create an impression
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to score a try
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