Word info

start over

Verb

Meaning

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

(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive, US) to begin again; to return to the beginning
I forgot to save my work, and I had to start over.
He had to start the game over because he lost his memory card.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A wise man once said: Don't be afraid to start over again. This time, you are not starting from scratch. You're starting from experience. Source: Internet

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. Carl Sandburg

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. Sylvia Plath

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