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double over

double over verb: to bend over deeply at the waist.

Verb

double over (third-person singular simple present doubles over, present participle doubling over, simple past and past participle doubled over)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To bend over deeply at the waist.
    • Near-synonyms: double up, buckle over
    • doubled over in pain
  2. (transitive, usually, fabric) To fold in half.
    • He doubled over the sheet of paper and wrote something on the back.

Synonyms of double over

Forms of double over

third-person singular presentdoubles over
present participledoubling over
past participledoubled over
pastdoubled over

Questions about double over

What does double over mean?
Double over means to bend over deeply at the waist.
What part of speech is double over?
Double over is a verb.
What is the past tense of double over?
The past tense of double over is doubled over.

Words near double over in the dictionary

  1. double opt-in
  2. double or nothing
  3. double or quits
  4. double orphan
  5. double orphans
  6. double over
  7. double park
  8. double parked
  9. double parking
  10. double parks
  11. double Pedro

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