"do over" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈduːˌəʊvə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈduˌoʊvɚ/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-do over.flac [General-American], en-au-do over.ogg [Australia] Forms: does over [present, singular, third-person], doing over [participle, present], did over [past], done over [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|do<does,,did,done> over}} do over (third-person singular simple present does over, present participle doing over, simple past did over, past participle done over)
  1. (transitive) To cover with; to smear or spread on to. Tags: transitive Translations (to cover with; to smear or spread on to): pārkrāsot (Latvian)
    Sense id: en-do_over-en-verb-eQ6AlDvy Disambiguation of 'to cover with; to smear or spread on to': 98 1 1
  2. (transitive, British, slang) To beat up. Tags: British, slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-do_over-en-verb-2Qu7r5eO Categories (other): British English
  3. (transitive, US) To repeat; to start over. Tags: US, transitive Derived forms: do-over [US, noun] Related terms: overdo
    Sense id: en-do_over-en-verb-myuuczdH Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (over) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 23 73 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (over): 7 29 64

Inflected forms

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        "To cover with; to smear or spread on to."
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        "(transitive) To cover with; to smear or spread on to."
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          "word": "pārkrāsot"
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          "ref": "1971 August 19, Robert Greenfield, quoting Keith Richards, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richard[s]”, in Rolling Stone, number 89, San Francisco, Calif.: Rolling Stone, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished in Cindy Ehrlich, editor, The Rolling Stones, [San Francisco, Calif.]: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1975, →OCLC, page 57, column 2",
          "text": "If someone tries to do my guitar, and I don't want it to be done, it's between him and me. I don't call in Bill Wyman to come in and do him over for me, with one of his vicious ankle-twisters or Chinese burns.",
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          "ref": "1974, Paul Harrison, “Soccer’s Tribal Wars”, in New Society: The Social Science Weekly, London: Harrison Raison & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 604; republished as Patrick Murphy, John Williams, Eric Dunning, Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 1990, page 86",
          "text": "I go to a match for one reason only: the aggro. […] [E]very night during the week we go round looking respectable … then if we see someone who looks like the enemy we ask him the time; if he answers in a foreign accent, we do him over; and if he's got any money on him we'll roll him as well.",
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        "To repeat; to start over."
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        "(transitive, US) To repeat; to start over."
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        "To cover with; to smear or spread on to."
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        "(transitive) To cover with; to smear or spread on to."
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          "text": "I go to a match for one reason only: the aggro. […] [E]very night during the week we go round looking respectable … then if we see someone who looks like the enemy we ask him the time; if he answers in a foreign accent, we do him over; and if he's got any money on him we'll roll him as well.",
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        "(transitive, US) To repeat; to start over."
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "to cover with; to smear or spread on to",
      "word": "pārkrāsot"
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