Overhauled
[,əʊvə'hɔ:ld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Overhaul
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Examples
- He believed the pits would have to be overhauled if they were to go on working. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As many boats were now quite close to us it was inevitable that we would be quickly overhauled in the shaft, and captured or killed in short order. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Here he checked the housekeeper's accounts, and overhauled the butler's cellar-book. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That represents the last time that the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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