Overhaul
[əʊvə'hɔːl] or ['ovɚhɔl]
Definition
(noun.) periodic maintenance on a car or machine; 'it was time for an overhaul on the tractor'.
(verb.) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to; 'You should overhaul your car engine'; 'overhaul the health care system'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.
(v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.
(n.) Alt. of Overhauling
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. (Naut.) Overtake, come up with.[2]. Examine, look into.[3]. [Colloquial U. S.] Censure, blame, reprove, reprehend, find fault with, pass censure on, take to task, bring to book, call over the coals, haul over the coals, call to account, come down upon, snap up.
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Definition
v.t. to haul or draw over: to turn over for examination: to examine: to re-examine: (naut.) to overtake in a chase.—n. O′verhaul a hauling over: examination: repair.—Overhaul a ship to overtake a ship: to search her for contraband goods.
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Examples
- Not until the middle of the century did the tonnage of steamships upon the sea begin to overhaul that of sailing-ships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Jo got out her desk and began to overhaul her half-finished manuscripts. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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.
- They were rapidly overhauling us when Tars Tarkas cried to me to hasten ahead and discover, if possible, the sanctuary we sought. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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