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. Emily Samsel:

   2022 was the best year ever in the U.S. for action on climate, jobs, and justice, and a historic year for our democracy, lCV is extraordinarily proud of our advocacy work over the years to make this possible, including working in partnership with many other effective groups that advocate for climate action and protecting our democracy.

2. Jon Feere:

   This is unprecedented, it’s something ICE does every year proudly because agents and officers want to show the results of their hard work over the last year, and for the Biden administration political appointees to not want to produce this is really a slap in the face to the hard-working career officials, and more importantly it's clearly a political effort aimed at hiding the impact of the Biden administration’s policies.

3. George Russell:

   We don’t often get rewarded for a great qualifying but today we absolutely did, there’s been so much hard work over the past few years and here we are on the podium.

4. 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.

5. 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.