Usually means: Comprehensive renovation, improvement, or reconstruction.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word overhaul:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. overhaul: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overhaul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overhaul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overhaul: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overhaul: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overhaul, overhaul: Wordnik
  7. overhaul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overhaul: Wiktionary
  9. overhaul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overhaul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overhaul: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overhaul, overhaul: Dictionary.com
  13. overhaul: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overhaul: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overhaul (My Hero Academia), Overhaul (firefighting), Overhaul: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overhaul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overhaul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overhaul: Rhymezone
  19. overhaul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overhaul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overhaul: Free Dictionary
  22. overhaul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overhaul: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. overhaul: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. OVERHAUL: Accounting Glossary
  2. Overhaul: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  3. overhaul: Legal dictionary
  4. Overhaul: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  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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