Definitions
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- v. To improve a prototype, or first draft.
- v. To physically attack in order to cause injury.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
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Examples
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Of course you know that they have long had admirable sewing-machines; they have now invented a darning-machine, which surely will be the means of lightening many a poor woman's wearisome work over the stockings and socks of her husband and children.
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For that matter, the gold-trace had become something more than a trace; it was a placer mine in itself, and the man resolved to come back after he had found the pocket and work over the ground.
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He had been used for occasional reconnaissance or special-mission work over the years, both in India and in Portugal.
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When a soul is backslidden, Christ calls upon him to repent and do his first work over again.
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To the tremendously talented and award-winning filmmaker Marc Wishengrad at Wishengrad Pictures, who filmed my work over the past decade and, with the help of Christy Musumecci and Alison Draper, captured the interviews of the physicians who testified to what they saw firsthand, so their words could be transcribed to support the book.
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A little before the date of my resignation, Mr. James Virtue, the printer and publisher, had asked me to edit a new magazine for him, and had offered me a salary of £1000 a year for the work over and above what might be due to me for my own contributions.
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