Definition of working-over in English:

working-over

nounwəːkɪŋˈəʊvə

informal

单词	working-over
释义	Definition of working-over in English: working-over nounwəːkɪŋˈəʊvə informal A punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly; a beating. she told him to give me a good working-over as payback Example sentencesExamples They gave him a vicious working over, but he wouldn't talk. Have you ever seen anyone after they've given him a proper working-over? Three men came round to his apartment block, ambushed him in the stairwell, and gave him a violent working over. The climax of this film was a scene in which two thugs give Roy a working-over in a barn. They are the real bullies in life and what they need is a real working over by a man their own size. Synonyms beating, thrashing, walloping, thumping, battering, pounding, pummelling, slapping, smacking, punching, bludgeoning, thwacking, cuffing, buffeting, mauling, pelting, lambasting
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