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overhaul
1. n. A major repair, remake, renovation, or revision.
The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.
2. n. (firefighting) The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite. Often this includes the p
3. v. To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
4. v. To pass, overtake, or travel past.
5. v. (nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
6. v. To search (a ship) for contraband goods.

Example Sentences

Now I patched it back together, but sometime you're going to have to junk it, or else get such a drastic overhaul it won't really be the same car.  Unveiling plans to overhaul outdated regulations, the European commission said firms would need authorisation to use substances which cause cancer, mutations and affect human reproductive systems.

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