OVERHAUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overhaul mean? 

• OVERHAUL (noun)
  The noun OVERHAUL has 2 senses:

1. periodic maintenance on a car or machine

2. the act of improving by renewing and restoring

  Familiarity information: OVERHAUL used as a noun is rare.

• OVERHAUL (verb)
  The verb OVERHAUL has 2 senses:

1. travel past

2. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

  Familiarity information: OVERHAUL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERHAUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Periodic maintenance on a car or machine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

inspection and repair; overhaul; service

Context example:

it was time for an overhaul on the tractor

Hypernyms ("overhaul" is a kind of...):

care; maintenance; upkeep (activity involved in maintaining something in good working order)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overhaul"):

interim overhaul (an overhaul between the regular times for overhauling)

Derivation:

overhaul (make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of improving by renewing and restoring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

overhaul; redevelopment; renovation

Context example:

a major overhaul of the healthcare system was proposed

Hypernyms ("overhaul" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overhaul"):

face lift; face lifting; facelift (a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes)

• OVERHAUL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overhaul    ... he / she / it overhauls   
Past simple: overhauled   
Past participle: overhauled   
-ing form: overhauling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel past

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

overhaul; overtake; pass

Context example:

The sports car passed all the trucks

Hypernyms (to "overhaul" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overhaul"):

get by (pass or move in front of)

clear; top (pass by, over, or under without making contact)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

modernise; modernize; overhaul

Context example:

overhaul the health care system

Hypernyms (to "overhaul" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

"Overhaul" entails doing...:

bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overhaul"):

retrofit (substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

overhaul (periodic maintenance on a car or machine)

 Context examples 

And I hope—raising his voice—that all hands in this here block house will overhaul my words, for what is spoke to one is spoke to all.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That represents the last time that the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We overhauled them about two feet to their one.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Old One Eye was rapidly overhauling the fleeing shape of white.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck had sprung in on the instant; and at the end of three hundred yards, amid a mad swirl of water, he overhauled Thornton.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But Jo got out her desk and began to overhaul her half-finished manuscripts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If only I dared to sit up and paddle, I made sure that I could overhaul her.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Even the hunters were pulling, and with three pairs of oars in the water they rapidly overhauled what I may appropriately term the enemy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hal and his sister and brother-in-law listened unwillingly, pitched tent, and overhauled the outfit.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Bill's been overhauled a'ready,” said he; “nothin' left.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)