go over

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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)

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