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work over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beat, beat up, work oververb

    give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

    "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

Wiktionary

  1. work oververb

    To improve a prototype, or first draft.

  2. work oververb

    To physically attack in order to cause injury.

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  1. work over

    "Work over" typically refers to the act of examining or revising something thoroughly. The phrase may have different interpretations based on the context but it generally means to fix, improve, or make adjustments to. In the context of a meeting or discussion, it could mean to discuss or debate a topic extensively. In the oil and gas industry, "work over" refers to performing major maintenance on an oil or gas well.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of work over in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of work over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of work over in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Griffith:

    I've had many opportunities to return to review her work and observe her work over the years as a judge, and on several occasions I reviewed her decisions on appeal, although we did not always agree on the outcome the law required, I respected her diligent and careful approach, her deep understanding and her collegial manner, indispensable traits for success as a justice on Supreme Court.

  2. Andrea Syrtash:

    Couplesdon't need to do everything together; but a couple can't lead separate lives if they want their marriage to work over the long-term, they shouldn't be co-dependent or too independent -- they should be interdependent.

  3. George Russell:

    We don’t often get rewarded for a great qualifying but today we absolutely did, there’s been so much hard work over the past few years and here we are on the podium.

  4. Troy Vincent:

    Their body of work over the course of a 17-game season has earned them the honor of officiating the biggest game on the world’s biggest stage, they are the best of the best.

  5. Robert Reich:

    A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

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