"work over" meaning in English

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      "form": "works over",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The estimated figures are not bad, but somebody will have to work them over.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To improve a prototype, or first draft."
      ],
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          "improve"
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        [
          "prototype",
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        [
          "draft",
          "draft"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To improve a prototype, or first draft."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "sense": "improve",
          "word": "polish"
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 5 3",
          "sense": "improve",
          "word": "rework"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He'll talk, once we work him over.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To physically attack in order to cause injury."
      ],
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        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
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          "injury",
          "injury"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To physically attack in order to cause injury."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99 0",
          "sense": "physically attack",
          "word": "beat up"
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        "transitive"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, David Rogers, The Printer's Devil, page 175:",
          "text": "The desk sergeant worked him over pretty good and finally turned him over to the detective squad.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc."
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        "(transitive, slang) To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc."
      ],
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        "slang",
        "transitive"
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  "word": "work over"
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    {
      "form": "working over",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "worked over",
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        "past"
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      "form": "worked over",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The estimated figures are not bad, but somebody will have to work them over.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To improve a prototype, or first draft."
      ],
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          "improve"
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        "(transitive) To improve a prototype, or first draft."
      ],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To physically attack in order to cause injury."
      ],
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        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "injury",
          "injury"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To physically attack in order to cause injury."
      ],
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        "slang",
        "transitive"
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          "text": "The desk sergeant worked him over pretty good and finally turned him over to the detective squad.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc."
      ],
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        "(transitive, slang) To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc."
      ],
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        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "improve",
      "word": "polish"
    },
    {
      "sense": "improve",
      "word": "rework"
    },
    {
      "sense": "physically attack",
      "word": "beat up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "work over"
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