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overhaul
has definitions from the field of transportation
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[ verb ] make repairs or adjustments to
Examples "You should overhaul your car engine" Used in print After drastically overhauling NATO , Western leadership should turn_to reducing the suspicions that tear_apart the East and West . Related terms |
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[ verb ] travel past, as of a vehicle
Examples "The sports car passed all the trucks" " Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)I let_up on the accelerator , only to gradually reach again the 60 m._p._h. which would , I hoped , overhaul Herry and the blonde , and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I , Mrs._Major_Roebuck settled_down to practicing on Corporal_Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante_Fe . |
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[ noun ] (transportation) periodic maintenance on a car or machine
Synonyms Examples "it was time for an overhaul on the tractor" Related terms |
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