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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. overing: Merriam-Webster
  2. overing: Wiktionary
  3. overing: Dictionary.com
  4. Overing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. overing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overing: Legal dictionary

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  1. overing: Encyclopedia

(Note: See over as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Over)

adjective:  Finished; ended; concluded.
adjective:  (botany) Of a flower: wilting or withering.
adjective:  (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
adjective:  (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.
adjective:  Having surmounted an obstacle.
adjective:  (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.
adjective:  Surplus to requirements.
adjective:  (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
adverb:  Describing a physical change of position or state.
adverb:  From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
adverb:  Across from one side of something to the other.
adverb:  So as to pass above.
adverb:  Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
adverb:  Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
adverb:  From an upright position to a horizontal one.
adverb:  So as to fold towards or onto itself.
adverb:  On top of something, or so as to cover something.
adverb:  So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
adverb:  So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
adverb:  Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
adverb:  Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
adverb:  Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
adverb:  (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
adverb:  Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
adverb:  To a future time.
adverb:  Overnight (throughout the night).
adverb:  Indicating repetition.
adverb:  (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
adverb:  Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
adverb:  See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
noun:  (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
noun:  Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
noun:  (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.
noun:  (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
verb:  (UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.
verb:  (UK, intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To run about.
noun:  (rare, dialectal or obsolete) A shore, riverbank.
noun:  A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3770).
noun:  A suburban area in Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6366).
noun:  A hamlet in Almondsbury parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST5882)
noun:  A hamlet near Gloucester in Highnam parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8119).
noun:  A village in Seevetal, Lower Saxony, Germany.
▸ Also see over


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