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Get over

verb

Travel across or pass over. Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, pass over, track, traverse.

To bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end. "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"

Improve in health. Synonyms: bounce back, get well.

Get on top of; deal with successfully. Synonyms: master, overcome, subdue, surmount.

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"Get over" Quotes from Famous Books

... Isaacs leading, was to get over the two fences from the windows by crossing on the bridges. The second group, led by Lieutenant Willis, was to cut its way through the wire fences. The third had ready some ladders made of strong rope, by which they hoped to climb over the fences. The last ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... hay was in cock or the wheat in shock, then the Titheman come; you didn't dare take up a field without you let him know. If the Titheman didn't come at the time, you tithed yourself. He marked his sheaves with a bough or bush. You couldn't get over the Titheman. If you began at a hedge and made the tenth cock smaller than the rest, the Titheman might begin in the middle just where he liked. The Titheman at Harting, old John Blackmore, lived at Mundy's [South Harting Street]. His grandson is blacksmith ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... Melbourne after a kangaroo, and occasionally even after a deer. The country is of course monotonous, and wants very good riding. There are no sensational water-jumps even at steeplechase meetings, the colonial horse not being accustomed to water. But it wants a good horse to get over the unvarying succession of post and rail fences. People who talk about the jumps in steeplechases at home being hard should try a run over a colonial course of 4-feet-6-inch post and rails. The horses are accustomed to it, but not so always the riders. Up ...

— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

... the reason why it is so impossible for man or angel to persuade unbelievers to come in to, and close with Christ; why there is a breadth that they cannot get over, a length that they cannot get beyond, a depth that they cannot pass, and heights that so hinder them of the prospect of glory, and the way thereto, that they cannot be allured thither. And that nothing can remove these; but those that are in God, and that are opposite thereto; even ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... don't know whether she grieved much over the shattering of her dreams concerning Lizaveta Nikolaevna. Family pride, of course, helped her to get over it. One thing was strange: Varvara Petrovna was suddenly convinced that Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch really had "made his choice" at Count K.'s. And what was strangest of all, she was led to believe it by rumours ...

— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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