Definition

1. Verb:
   • To examine or review something carefully and thoroughly: To inspect, check, or study something in detail to understand, verify, or assess its condition, quality, or accuracy.
   • To be received or perceived in a particular way (by an audience): To be accepted, understood, or reacted to with a specific response.
   • To fall or topple over: To lose one's balance and fall forward or down.
   • To practice or rehearse something: To repeat or review something, such as a performance or a set of instructions, to improve or prepare.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Before submitting the report, please go over it one more time for any errors.
  • The comedian's jokes did not go over well with the conservative audience.
  • The toddler went over and bumped her head on the carpet.
  • Let's go over the main points of the presentation before the meeting.

Advanced Usage

• "to go over something with a fine-tooth comb": to examine something extremely carefully and meticulously.
  • The auditors went over the accounts with a fine-tooth comb.
• "to go over someone's head": to appeal to a higher authority than someone, bypassing them.
  • When my manager refused, I had to go over his head to the director.

Variants and Related Words

• Go-over (noun, informal): A thorough inspection or review.
  • Give the car a good go-over before the long trip.
• Go overboard (phrasal verb): To do something to an excessive or extreme degree.
  • He went overboard with the decorations for the party.

Synonyms

• Review: To assess or examine something again.
• Inspect: To look at something closely.
• Rehearse: To practice for a performance.
• Fall: To drop or come down suddenly.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Go over to: To change to a different side, opinion, or place.
  • Many viewers went over to the new streaming service.
• Go over something again: To repeat an explanation or review.
  • I didn't understand; can you go over that again?

Related Idioms

• Go over like a lead balloon: To be received very poorly; to fail completely.
  • His proposal for longer work hours went over like a lead balloon.
• Go over the top: To behave in an excessive or exaggerated way.
  • The movie's special effects were good, but the ending went over the top.

Verb

1. fall forward and down
   • The old woman went over without a sound
2. examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
   • check the brakes
   • Check out the engine
3. happen in a particular manner
   • how did your talk go over?
4. hold a review (of troops)