Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Over (oer, o'er)
over (oer, o'er), adv. [OE; “over” modifying a verb to tell where or how an action occurs.]
- There; to the place where you are.
- Above; upon; touching.
- Beyond normal limits; out of bounds.
- Again; repeatedly.
- Finished; past; ended; [irony] repeated; recurring; happening again; [fig.] at a distance.
- Completely; thoroughly.
- Higher than.
- Phrase. “view … o'er”: survey; look across; examine from one end to the other; [ED quotation from a hymn text by Isaac Watts.]
- Phrase. “over and over”/“oer and oer”: repeatedly; endlessly; many times; again and again.
- Phrase. “run it over”: review it; repeat it; go through it again.
- Phrase. “over there”: far away; in the distance.
- Phrase. “count … o'er”: recount; account for all of; [fig.] review; remember.
- Phrase. “turn o'er and o'er”: look at carefully; examine by sight repeatedly; study visually for a long time; return the gaze to again and again.
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