| 单词 | to work over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto work over to work over ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > fashion with artistic skill or decoration [verb (transitive)] > cover with ornamental work fret1340 lay?a1366 overfretc1440 to work over1542 parget1576 encrust1641 incrustate1728 1542 tr. A. Geuffroy Order Greate Turckes Courte sig. e.iii Theyr sheetes are of course lynnen clothe, wroughte ouer [Fr. couverts] wyth sylcke of nedle worcke. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xvii. 455 You must cut away the wood which is aboue the roote, and worke it ouer with gummed waxe all along the seames. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 113/2 An Air too dry and parching, does Wrinkle and Chap the Skin, so that Art must be called in to work it over with a Beautiful Embroidery. 1768 Universal Mag. June 326/2 When the plate has gone through the hands of a bungler, who has worked it over with his infamous scratches, the idea of the master is lost. 1874 J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Furnit. S. Kensington Mus. 131 The work is profusely gilt and worked over with tooling. 1907 Success Mag. Nov. 766/3 I..marked out design in the dots. Then I worked it over solid with light-blue cotton floss. 2. transitive. To do work on (something material or immaterial) until it is changed or improved; to rework. [Compare German überarbeiten (18th cent. in the sense; 17th cent. in sense ‘to overwork’).] ΘΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > manufacture or produce [verb (transitive)] > again rework1645 remanufacture1763 to work over1832 1832 O. A. Taylor tr. F. V. Reinhard Mem. & Confessions i. xii. 96 I every where discover imperfections and defects which might have been avoided, had I..been able to work them over [L. alles..zu bearbeiten] and improve them. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. iii. 39 For a long time there has existed..a tendency to work over such verbs,..reducing them to accordance with the more numerous class of the ‘regularly’ inflected. 1943 B. Bandel Let. 3 Jan. in S. J. Bugbee Officer & Lady (2004) 60 The solution is invariably totally un-army, so then our Elder Statesmen work it over to make it fit into the army. 1983 Leadership 2 60 The Olifant tanks are thoroughly revamped ex-British Centurions which have been up-gunned, re-engined and generally worked over. 2007 M. A. Pitman Ask without Fear vii. 81 Introverts tend to share an idea once they've worked it over internally and arrived at their finished product. 3. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To beat (a person) up, esp. severely. Cf. to do over 4 at do v. Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1903 Salt Lake Tribune 26 May 4/4 He hunted up the man from Neodesha and so completely worked him over that his mother wouldn't have known him. 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man viii. 37 Morelli's face was a mess: the coppers had worked him over a little just for the fun of it. 1979 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 1 June 532/2 I got some lively stuff of the three porkers working the kid over and all the editor has to say is that police brutality's a bit of a cliché nowadays. 1990 P. Auster Music of Chance ii. 29 They kept working me over. For a moment there I thought they were going to kill me. 2006 J. Kaplan Contact Wounds (2007) 90 His assailants had worked him over with hammers. The man's face resembled a blue melon. < as lemmas |
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