work over


verb
  1. (tr, adverb) to do again; repeat

  2. (intr, preposition) to examine closely and thoroughly

  1. (tr, adverb) slang to assault or thrash

Words Nearby work over

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How to use work over in a sentence

  • And then I suppose hell be out of work over there, and we shall be hearing of the unemployment in the Colonies!

    Chains | Elizabeth Baker
  • Dick thought it remarkable that a painter should choose to work over an absinthe in a public café, and looked the man over.

    Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • I cannot say any thing better of Professor Tenney's pupils, than that they work over their specimens as enthusiastically as boys.

  • I was to work over to the Block House and took my Farewel of working their & all our sick were drawd up & som dischargd.

  • It is just as well that their gratitude should be divided a little, so I will hand that part of the work over to you.

    Condemned as a Nihilist | George Alfred Henty

Other Idioms and Phrases with work over

work over

Beat up, as in The secret police worked him over and he's never been the same. [c. 1920]

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