moon over
verb
mooned over; mooning over; moons over
: to spend too much time thinking about or looking at (someone or something that one admires or wants very much)
All the girls in the class are mooning over the handsome new teacher.
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The changing gravitational field as a star sheds mass can disrupt the planets' orbits, resulting in many collisions between asteroids, comets and surviving planets and moons over billions of years that can grind solid bodies down to dust and small chunks.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Moon over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon%20over. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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