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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

... caught what the young lady said; but if it was, that what cannot be cured must be endured, it is true enough; and I suppose that they'll get over your blunder as they have done ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... military service, and has not been addicted to out-of-door sports. The worst destroyer of sound family and national life is luxury. If the race is to meet successfully the test of liberty, it will get over its apparent tendency of the moment towards materialism and reliance on the power of money, hold fast to its social and artistic idealism, and press steadily towards its intellectual and ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

... I said, about three months to get over this sort of thing, and to prepare for realities, I was located for life as aforesaid. My family consisted of myself and husband, a female friend as a visitor, and two brothers of my good man, who were engaged with him ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... look to you, sir," he said gravely. "Even the social aspect of the thing in the narrowest sense of the word is serious. And there are other difficulties harder to get over than that. I don't think I minimize any of them. And I don't believe that Mary does. But the main thing is a fact that can't be escaped. If ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... braves. This, after invading the territory of a friendly tribe in order to provoke a battle with the whites, and boasting that formerly they had driven them back from the Darling, was a blow that they could not get over, and the result was that the whites were not again molested. It turned out that this pugnacious tribe was the same that threatened Sturt at the Darling junction, when the energetic interference of one man ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

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