go over

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go over

verb goes over · going over · went over · gone over

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over. I'm going over to my friend's house.
  2. idiomatic, transitive To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. Please go over the reports to make sure we haven't missed anything.
  3. idiomatic, intransitive To create a response or impression. Playing a radio in the office did not go over well with his coworkers.
  4. To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
  5. transitive To encompass or cover (a subject). In first period, we're going over the basics of cell biology.
  6. To score a try. 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.
  7. UK, dated, slang, transitive To pat down (someone) and then rob them. That's who went over the butcher.
  8. dated, intransitive, slang To turn out successful; to be well-received. That song really went over with the audience.
  9. dated, intransitive To convert to Roman Catholicism.
  10. broadly, intransitive To convert or switch sides. He went over to the finance department's side in this dispute.

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