MOVE OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does move over mean? 

• MOVE OVER (verb)
  The verb MOVE OVER has 1 sense:

1. move in order to make room for someone for something

  Familiarity information: MOVE OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVE OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move in order to make room for someone for something

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

ease up; give; give way; move over; yield

Context example:

'Move over,' he told the crowd

Hypernyms (to "move over" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Verb group:

abandon; give up (stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't move over

 Context examples 

My fingers, said Elizabeth, do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)