Usually means: Improve, modify, or repair something.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word work over:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. work over: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. work over: Collins English Dictionary
  3. work over: Vocabulary.com
  4. work-over: Wordnik
  5. work over: Wiktionary
  6. work over: Dictionary.com
  7. work over: Rhymezone
  8. work over: Free Dictionary
  9. work over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. work over: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work over: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (work over)

verb:  (transitive) To improve a prototype, or first draft.
verb:  (transitive, slang, idiomatic) To physically attack in order to cause injury.
verb:  (transitive, slang, idiomatic) To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc.

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