work over

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to beat someone severely

   Phrasal verb · Separable

   work over someone / work someone over

   Usage: This violent informal sense takes a person as its object. Put a pronoun before over: work him over.

   In the crime novel, the gang threatened to work over anyone who spoke to police.

   Sources and attribution

   OpenAI Codex authors; independent AI editorial review recorded in the corpus review archive. — Original project editorial material; cleared for The Missing Workbook

   • The Missing Workbook: original construction review

   In the crime novel, the gang threatened to work over anyone who spoke to police.

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