to fly over
102
3.1
- phrasal verb
- /flaɪ ˈoʊvər/
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sobrevolar
- You flew over my house this morning.
- a plane flying over
- a flag flying over
- flew over the island
And you know, they, they begin to to fly over Salvador to the east.
- And you know, they, they begin to to fly over Salvador to the east.
- But then a flock of crows flew over the house, a sign of darkness.
- And then he flew over the Soviet Union taking photographs.
- And that is why do seagulls fly over the sea?
- We take off and we're flying over Baghdad from the airport to the embassy.
- A large cylindrical object just flew over me.
- Does that mean North Korea's nuclear weapons would also have to fly over Russia?
- When I was growing up in would see airplanes fly over.
- But like, there's things where it'll be like a bird flying over a beach, like the like, it'll say it out loud.
- Now, if it, if an Islamic State actor did the same thing, you would have drones flying over that quarter again.
Examples
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How did it feel to fly over the ocean?
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We take off and we're flying over Baghdad from the airport to the embassy.
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I saw our planes fly over.
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I love flying over the polar cap.
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We're going to fly over Paris and France in VR, apparently.
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We're now flying over Hoover Dam, and later we'll pass south of the Grand Canyon.
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I am Baron von Richthofen, and I am flying over enemy territory.
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We will fly over the mountains during our trip to Colorado.
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The birds began to fly over the fields as the sun rose.
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You can see the city lights twinkling when we fly over it at night.
Synonyms
97
1.8
To fly high and freely in the air like a bird or glider
89
2.9
To move smoothly and without effort through the air or over a surface
26
3.3
To move across a place, often above the ground
16
2.2
To move past something while in the air
2
7.9
To fly over a place in a plane
1
3.5
To pass above something usually using a bridge
Antonyms
How High
102
3.1
1
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to travel above something by flying' is directly and literally composed from 'fly' (to move through the air) + 'over' (above/across), following a standard motion verb + particle pattern. This is a transparent, compositional sense found across many languages and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Fly over comes from a simple picture of a bird or plane that flies above a place, with over showing it goes above that spot. So it means 'to travel above something by flying'.