over and over again
over and over again adverb: repeatedly; again and again; many times.
Adverb
over and over again (not comparable)
- Repeatedly; again and again; many times.
- He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
- It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- over and over
over and over again meaning in Bengali and Kannada
over and over again in Bengali
- বারবার, পুনরায়, অনেক বার
over and over again in Kannada
- ಪುನಃಪುನಃ, ಮತ್ತೆಮತ್ತೆ
Examples of over and over again in a sentence
- A big red-faced man next to Jeremy was crying over and over again: That'll teach him to meddle with our women." "That'll teach him to meddle with our women."1992, Hugh Walpole, Jeremy and the Ruffians:
- That is something that I think of over and over again, a kind of mantra about why self-revelation is actually a political gesture.2019 June 30, John Williams, “‘I Was Done With All the Silences’: How an Academic Got Personal in ‘Notes to Self’”, in The New York Times:
Synonyms of over and over again
Questions about over and over again
- What does over and over again mean?
- Over and over again means repeatedly; again and again; many times.
- What is over and over again in Bengali?
- Over and over again in Bengali is বারবার, পুনরায়, অনেক বার. See Over and over again meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use over and over again in a sentence?
- A big red-faced man next to Jeremy was crying over and over again: That'll teach him to meddle with our women." "That'll teach him to meddle with our women."
- What part of speech is over and over again?
- Over and over again is an adverb.
Words near over and over again in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: over and over again (page history and authors); over and over again (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); over and over again (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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