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modernize
To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style.
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  1. To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style.
  2. To bring something up to date, or make it modern in style or function
fix
To correct or set right; adjust:
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  1. To correct or set right; adjust:
  2. (--- Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.
  3. To influence the outcome or actions of (something) by improper or unlawful means:
renew
To begin again; take up again; resume
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  1. To begin again; take up again; resume
  2. To give or get an extension of
  3. To go over again; say again; repeat
doctor
To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of:
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  1. To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of:
  2. (--- Baseball) To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement:
  3. To try to heal; apply medicine to
fix
To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
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  1. To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
  2. (--- Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.
  3. To correct or set right; adjust:
mend
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
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  1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
  2. To make better; improve; reform; set right
  3. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
patch
(Computers) To correct a bug in (an item of software), especially as a temporary correction between releases.
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  1. (Computers) To correct a bug in (an item of software), especially as a temporary correction between releases.
  2. A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
  3. To add (a person) in or into an electronic communication circuit, as for a conference call or radio transmission
repair
To go often, customarily, or in numbers
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  1. To go often, customarily, or in numbers
  2. To put back in good condition after damage, decay, etc.; mend; fix
  3. To set right; remedy:
revamp
To renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch.
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  1. To renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch.
  2. To vamp (a shoe) anew.
  3. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example).
right
On or toward the right hand or side
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  1. On or toward the right hand or side
  2. To put in order; set right
  3. Exactly; just:
overtake
To come upon unexpectedly or suddenly
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  1. To come upon unexpectedly or suddenly
  2. To pass a more slowly moving object.
  3. To pass after catching up with.
pass
(--- Law) To convey (property) to an heir or heirs:
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  1. (--- Law) To convey (property) to an heir or heirs:
  2. To convey property to an heir or heirs:
  3. To pronounce; utter:
shakeup
A thorough, often drastic reorganization, as of the personnel in a business or government.
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  1. A thorough, often drastic reorganization, as of the personnel in a business or government.
housecleaning
(Informal) Removal of unwanted personnel, methods, or policies in an effort at reform or improvement.
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  1. (Informal) Removal of unwanted personnel, methods, or policies in an effort at reform or improvement.
  2. Collectively, the tasks involved with cleaning a house; the practice of cleaning a house.
  3. A getting rid of superfluous things, unwanted personnel, undesirable conditions, etc.
Find another word for overhaul. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for overhaul, like: modernize, fix, renew, improve, reconstruct, repair, restore, doctor, fix, fix up and mend.

Sentence Examples

  • This abuse resulted in an overhaul of the system that sought to tie the poor to their original parish.

  • Some illegal practices of certain chancery officials had been detected and punished by the court itself, and generally there was a disposition to overhaul its affairs, while Coke and Lionel Cranfield, earl of Middlesex (1575-1645) directly attacked some parts of the chancellor's administration.

  • Clean and repair the forcing-houses, and overhaul the heating apparatus to see it is in good working condition.

  • This design change may also foreshadow the tastes of the upcoming overhaul for the Fiat, which is expected in 2015.

  • It has been out of service for 15 years pending completion of an overhaul.

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