work over

VERB
  1. 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
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How To Use work over In A Sentence

  • I will leave my homework over until tomorrow.
  • my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime
  • He was supposed to show me the ropes and introduce me to the work over a period of six months.
  • He also enjoyed within the same framework over a period of 15 years the rent-free occupation of the property.
  • The company has led the field to such an extent, and has produced so much good work over the last decade that has not been rewarded with Oscars, that I thought it a little sad that the first award went to the upstarts.
  • Occasionally painters turned some of their work over to dealers, whose markups could be substantial.
  • That is a testament to the teams' hard work over the last few years and their expertise in this realm, " program manager Jaime Engdahl told reporters during a call-in conference for the press.
  • If she asks me to work over the weekend I'll tell her to shove it up her ass!
  • The skein, an outgrowth of five-minute interstitials that have been airing on the network over the past year, will debut in a monthly, half-hour format in late May or early June.
  • Does it make sense to, say, work overtime to save local green space when national policies create air so unbreathable it's unsafe to be outside on summer days?
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