OVER AGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does over again mean? 

• OVER AGAIN (adverb)
  The adverb OVER AGAIN has 1 sense:

1. anew

  Familiarity information: OVER AGAIN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVER AGAIN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anew

Synonyms:

again; once again; once more; over again

Context example:

they rehearsed the scene again

 Context examples 

It must come right, it must come right, I repeated to myself, over and over again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Some day, perhaps, when you have won your place in the world, we shall talk it over again.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I promised, of course; and we kissed one another over and over again, and I soon fell fast asleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I stood, a wretched child enough, whispering to myself over and over again, "What shall I do?—what shall I do?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I will not entirely give it up, however; I will try what can be done—I will look it over again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For example, a person may worry all the time about germs and so will wash his or her hands over and over again.

(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Now he must begin all over again with somebody else.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

If you are very kind, said he, it will be one of the waltzes we danced last night;—let me live them over again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"An' next week we got to do it all over again," he said sadly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)