over
Meaning
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- Discontinued; ended or concluded.
- (informal) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- (slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
Synonyms
more than
be finished
o’er
done with
extra payment
the other side
jump over
the other side of
in excess
in the sky
throughout:
little more
atour
higher in authority
too great
over see
far and near
only too
on the other side
Frequency
Hyphenated as
o‧ver
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, a comparative form of *upo. Akin to Dutch over, German ober, über, Danish over, Norwegian over, Swedish över, Icelandic yfir, Faroese yvir, Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar), Latin super, Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), Albanian upri (“group of peasants”), Sanskrit उपरि (upári). Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.
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