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started over

started over is the simple past and past participle of start over.

Meaning of start over

Verb

start over (third-person singular simple present starts over, present participle starting over, simple past and past participle started over)

  1. (US, ambitransitive, idiomatic) to begin again; to return to the beginning
    • I forgot to save my work, and I had to start over.

Questions about started over

What is started over the simple past and past participle of?
Started over is the simple past and past participle of start over.

Words near started over in the dictionary

  1. started off
  2. started off on the wrong foot
  3. started on
  4. started on at
  5. started out
  6. started over
  7. started the ball rolling
  8. started up
  9. started up on
  10. started with a clean sheet
  11. started with a clean sheet of paper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: started over (page history and authors); start over (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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