The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English
go over sth
(EXAMINE) — phrasal verb with go /ɡəʊ/
/ɡoʊ/ verb (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)Definition
1. Definition
2. Practise
B2 to examine or look at something in a careful or detailed way: Forensic scientists are going over the victim's flat in a search for clues about the murderer. Remember to go over your essay checking for grammar and spelling mistakes before you hand it in to me. I've gone over the problem several times, but I can't think of a solution.Analysing and evaluatingAssessing and estimating value
(Definition of go over sth (EXAMINE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Focus on the pronunciation of go over sth
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Analysing and evaluating, but you might be interested in these topics from the Using the mind topic area:
- Aware
- Believable
- Believing
- Changing your mind
- Concluding and deducing
- Continually thinking about
- Decisions and deciding
- Deep in thought
- Difficult to understand
- Dreaming
- Easy to understand
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Experienced
- Experts and specialists
- Expressing and asking opinions
- Forgetting and forgetfulness
- Guesses and assumptions
- Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- Ideas, concepts and theories
- Imagining and conceiving
- Inability and awkwardness
- Inexperienced (of people)
- Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- Inspiration and inspiring
- Intelligence
- Intelligent people
- Judgments and analyses
- Knowledge and awareness
- Logic and reason
- Memory and memories
- Mind and personality
- Misunderstanding
- Not believable
- Not believing
- Not expected or planned
- Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- People who analyse and judge
- People who make predictions
- Philosophy
- Planning, expecting and arranging
- Plans and arrangements
- Predicting things and intuition
- Remembering, reminding and reminders
- Skill, talent and ability
- Skilled, talented and able
- Solving and solutions
- Stupid and silly
- Stupid and silly behaviour
- Stupid and silly people
- Testing, checking and experimenting
- Thinking and contemplating
- Trusting and not trusting
- Unaware
- Understanding and comprehending
- Wise and sensible
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “go over sth”
SMART Thesaurus: Analysing and evaluating
Synonyms and related words:
- analyse verb
- analyst noun
- analytical adjective
- arbitrate verb
- ascribe sth to sb/sth phrasal verb
- inquiry noun (PROCESS)
- inspection noun
- interpretive adjective
- investigate verb
- investigation noun
- investigative adjective
- judge verb
- measure verb (JUDGE)
- probe noun
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift verb (EXAMINE)
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up phrasal verb
- take stock idiom
- vet verb
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
