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Change over   /tʃeɪndʒ ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Change over

verb
1.
Make a shift in or exchange of.  Synonyms: shift, switch.
2.
Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy.  Synonym: convert.






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"Change over" Quotes from Famous Books



... flushing with a joy almost as frankly shewn as his own; but that brought a change over her face. The eyes fell, and the line of the lips was unbent after ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... seedling olive trees, set out in 1904, which I wish to change over to the Ascolano variety. Which is the best way to do it, by budding or grafting, and ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

... chapter—i.e., our interminable rhymes; til, tired of exchanging our bad prose for worse poetry, (and having the fear of his maledictions before our eyes,) we throw it aside in a pet. Then comes a change over our spirit; and we dabble in paint-pots, and flourish a palette, and are great on canvass, and in chalks, and there is a mingled perfume of oil and turpentine in our studio (whilome study) that is ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various

... minute," said he: "I had a brother Edward, as good a lad as ever was; a boisterous, healthy fellow. We had an old nurse in our family who came from Irish hills, faithful and kind to us both. There came a change over Edward. He appeared not to take the same interest in his sports. One day he came to me, looking a bit pale, and said: 'Galt, I think I should like to study for the Church.' I laughed at it, yet it troubled me in a way, for I saw he was not well. I told ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... was related to my aunt, she seemed at first merely bewildered at hearing of it; but in a moment more there came a change over her face, as if she had suddenly recollected or thought of something. She turned deadly pale, and said, in a hurried way, very ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins



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