Synonyms for work over
work over

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1. work oververb

   To improve a prototype, or first draft.

   The estimated figures are not bad, but somebody will have to work them over.

   Synonyms:
   rework, polish

2. work oververb

   To physically attack in order to cause injury.

   He'll talk, once we work him over.

   Synonyms:
   beat up

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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"

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, stupefy, baffle, stick, perplex, vanquish, rally, get, drum up, mystify, flummox, beat, outwit, circumvent, tick, nonplus, trounce, pulsate, drum, beat up, bunk, dumbfound, tucker out, flap, beat out, gravel, thump, ticktack, outsmart, thrum, ticktock, amaze, quiver, pound, puzzle, overreach, bewilder, crush, tucker, vex, wash up, outfox, pose, scramble, shell

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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. Med Jones:

   The forces of the Power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications.

3. 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.

4. President Trump:

   I'm going to be doing a little work over the weekend, i'm going to be studying the federal workers in Washington that you have been reading so much about, people don't want to give them the increase, they haven't had one in a long time, I said I'm going to study that over the weekend.

5. 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.