o'er
preposition
contraction of over.
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o'er
1 American
[awr, ohr]
/ ɔr, oʊr /
preposition
Literary.
OER
2
American
o'er
British
/ əʊə, ɔː /
preposition
Example Sentences
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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
Hamlet did not want his capacity for action to be “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022
“Together they sleep on the sloping green Where the flowers bloom ‘neath the sunlight beam And the soft breezes sigh through the willow tree That nods o’er the grave in the sunny Shawnee.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2019
As John Milton, that other blind survivor, once noted: Though "Thousands at his bidding speed / And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest: / They also serve who only stand and wait."
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2016
Relief come o’er me so much I near fainted out the saddle.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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