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starts over

starts over is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 starts over

What is starts over the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Starts over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of start over.

Words near starts over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starts 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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