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Definition

To experience the ending or completion of something.

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Origins

get + over with

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In Context

  • "I am going to let the evidence (T-3745) stand for whatever it is worth and you may go ahead and put the other one in too and then we will have that over with, and you can go ahead and put the other one in."
  • "Best to have it over with. Let us have done with the ghastly business by all means."
  • "Rosellen wished she and Darius had this over with."
  • "One part of him knew that this is what she really wanted, to get out of this world, have it over with, to end her pain."
  • "We were anxious to have it over with."
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