Usually means: Comprehensive renovation, improvement, or reconstruction.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word overhaul:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. overhaul: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overhaul: Merriam-Webster
  3. overhaul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overhaul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overhaul: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overhaul: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overhaul, overhaul: Wordnik
  8. overhaul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overhaul: Wiktionary
  10. overhaul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overhaul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overhaul: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overhaul, overhaul: Dictionary.com
  14. overhaul: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overhaul: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Overhaul (My Hero Academia), Overhaul (firefighting), Overhaul: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Overhaul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. overhaul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. overhaul: Rhymezone
  20. overhaul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. overhaul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. overhaul: FreeDictionary.org
  23. overhaul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overhaul: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. overhaul: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. OVERHAUL: Accounting Glossary
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  3. overhaul: Legal dictionary
  4. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overhaul: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overhaul: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See overhauled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A major repair, renovation, or revision.
noun:  (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 process of salvage under the blanket term, salvage and overhaul.
verb:  To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
verb:  To pass, overtake, or travel past.
verb:  (nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
verb:  (transitive) To search (a ship) for contraband goods.

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