Usually means: Improve, modify, or repair something.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. work over: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. work over: Merriam-Webster
  3. work over: Collins English Dictionary
  4. work over: Vocabulary.com
  5. work-over: Wordnik
  6. work over: Wiktionary
  7. work over: Dictionary.com
  8. work over: Rhymezone
  9. work over: FreeDictionary.org
  10. work over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. work over: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (work over)

verb:  (transitive) To improve a prototype, or first draft.
verb:  (transitive, slang, idiomatic) To physically attack in order to cause injury.
verb:  (transitive, slang, idiomatic) To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc.

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