Verb: go over
- Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
"go over the brakes";
- check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out [Brit, informal], check over, check into, suss [Brit, informal], sus [Brit, informal]
- Hold a review (of troops)
"The general went over the troops before the parade";
- review, survey
- Happen in a particular manner
"how did your talk go over?";
- go off, come off
- Fall forward and down
"The old woman went over without a sound";
- fall over
Derived forms: goes over, went over, going over, gone over
See also: look
Type of: analyse [Brit, Cdn], analyze [N. Amer], break down, canvass, collapse, come about, examine, fall out, go on, hap [archaic], happen, inspect, occur, pass, pass off, study, take place
Encyclopedia: Go over