transitive. To surmount (a difficulty or obstacle); to recover from (a blow, disaster, etc.).

transitive. To get over, get better from (an illness, misfortune, or injury). Now rare.

transitive. To get beyond or over; to recover from; to throw off, overturn. Also (occasionally) intransitive.

transitive. To pass through, get to the end of (a period of time, an action, experience, etc.), esp. successfully or safely; to endure, survive…

transitive. To get beyond (a stage or condition of life, development, etc.).

To get over the effects of. archaic.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). To get over, get through, esp. to succeed in passing (time); to survive, make it through…

Chiefly poetic. transitive. To overcome in the course of time; to endure or survive; to outgrow. Now rare.

transitive. Originally Scottish. To get over or recover from (an illness, etc.). Now English regional (Lincolnshire).

†to make a saving game of: to make good what one has lost in (a particular set of circumstances) in the end; to salvage (a situation). Chiefly in to…

transitive. To heal (a wound).

intransitive. To recover from (a shock, injury, illness, etc.).

transitive. figurative. To get over, surmount; to recover from the effects of (an illness, shock, etc.).

transitive. To cast away (a thing); to repudiate (a promise); (in later use Scottish) to throw off or get over (illness, misfortune, etc.). Also…

transitive. regional. To get over; to recover from (an illness, misfortune, etc.); (also) to survive, last.