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work over

verb

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

The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

Stand-up comedian Adam Newman encountered one of the toughest rooms any comic could work over the weekend.

It has put a seven-digit number of Americans to work over the decades.

According to Haaretz, Kerry and Obama will work over the next three to six months to see what's feasible.

Special attention is paid to their work over the past 12 months.

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

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

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.

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