verb
- Communicate successfully.
- usage: "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"
- synonyms: put over
- Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions.
- usage: "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
- synonyms: click, get through, dawn, come home, sink in, penetrate, fall into place
- Travel across or pass over.
- usage: "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
- synonyms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, cut through, cut across
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