start over

phrasal verb·1 sense·particle over

Meanings

1

Begin something again from the beginning

Why “over”? You go over the same thing again to review it or do it again.

Let's start over.
Let's begin again from the start.
The game crashed, so we started over.
The game crashed, so we began again from the start.

Don't confuse with

start overstart off

Start over means begin something again from the beginning. Start off means begin a journey, conversation or process.

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