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going over en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An inspection, examination, review, or investigation.
    • Make sure to give the refurbished products a real going over before they are sold.
    • After the bankruptcy, our accounts were given a thorough going over.
  2. An overhaul.
  3. A severe, thorough scolding.
  4. A sound thrashing, beating.
    • When the mob men finally found him, they gave him a good going over that left him clinging to life.

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Synonyms

chiding · whupping · thwacking · shellac · licking · beating · pasting · ass kicking · hiding · thumping · dusting · smackdown · renovation · battering · dressing-down · thrashing · audit · objurgation · whipping · hiding · going over · correption · scolding · lecture · boom-boom · going over · objurgation · rixation · pummeling · whopping · kicking · throughgoing · lamming · smackdown · leathering · dressing down · flogging · scrutiny · dressing down · wiping · down the banks · sermon · larruping · browbeating · browbeating · chockling · loundering · ass beating · check · whaling · repair · berating · revision · dirdum · pummeling · drubbing · shoeing · lacing · beatdown · warming · jawing · clobbering

going over en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of go over
    form of go over
    • The new policies aren't going over well with the staff.
    • The client is going over the new proposal as we speak.
  2. (slang) Of a wrestler or wrestlers: to be scheduled to win a match.

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