VERB
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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
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?
