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OVER AND OVER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Repeatedly
Example:
the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text
Synonyms:
again and again; over and over; over and over again; time and again; time and time again
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Context examples:
Dennin was conscious. He had rolled over and over on the floor in vain efforts to free himself.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“What think you now?” cried the west-countryman behind me, and in his excitement he could get no further save to repeat over and over again, “What think you now?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I read these words over and over again: I felt that an explanation belonged to them, and was unable fully to penetrate their import.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And thereupon he would get out one or another of his manuscripts, such as "Adventure," and read it over and over in a vain attempt to vindicate the editorial silence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The lady’s, on the other hand, were most bitter, and when she raised her voice could be plainly heard. ‘You coward!’ she repeated over and over again. ‘What can be done now?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Strand postmark, and dispatched ten thirty-six,” said Holmes, reading it over and over.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Studying the microscopic roundworm C. elegans led the researchers to find that defects in one protein cause animals to reorient themselves over and over again.
(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)
A person may repeat a behavior, such as hand-washing, over and over.
(Compulsion, NCI Dictionary)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient pace, do things over and over such as opening closets or drawers, or repeatedly pick at things or wind string or threads?
(NPI - Pace, Do Things Over and Over, Repeatedly Pick at Things, NCI Thesaurus)
