Definition of Over and over

1. Adverb. Repeatedly. "The unknown word turned up over and over again in the text"


Definition of Over and over

1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Repeatedly; again and again; many times. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Over And Over

over-the-counter drugs
over-the-counter market
over-the-counter medicine
over-the-hill
over-the-shoulder bombing
over-the-shoulder boulder holder
over-the-shoulder boulder holders
over-the-top
over-the-topness
over-under
over-zealous
over a barrel
over again
over and above
over and out
over and over (current term)
over and over again
over and under
over easy
over here
over my dead body
over one's head
over open sights
over rate
over rates
over square
over the counter
over the counter security
over the counter stock
over the edge

Literary usage of Over and over

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"Chr. Yes, over, and over, and over. They \ might also see my fears in my countenance, in my tears, and also in my trembling under the appre- hension of the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"But certainly it would not be more beneficial than three-quarter per cent, salt solution, and it has been shown over and over again that the effect of this ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"over and over again this little experiment was performed without variation in its results, until, finally, satisfied, I moved my head off my arm and ..."

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