Word Meanings - OVERHAUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gain upon in a chase; to overtake. To overhaul a tackle, to pull on the leading parts so as to separate the blocks. -- To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs. (more info) 1. To haul or drag over; hence, to

Additional info about word: OVERHAUL

To gain upon in a chase; to overtake. To overhaul a tackle, to pull on the leading parts so as to separate the blocks. -- To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that no hitch occurs. (more info) 1. To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERHAUL)

• Carp
• Cavil
• censure
• challenge
• overhaul
• canvass
• hypercriticise
• object
• catch
• Inspect
• Scrutinize
• examine
• investigate
• search
• look into
• supervise
• Ransack
• Rummage
• rifle
• explore
• pillage
• ravage

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OVERHAUL)

• Pretermit
• allow
• ignore
• disregard
• admit
• pass
• misexamine
• misinvestigate
• Pass
• grant
• concede
• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify
• abandon

Related words: (words related to OVERHAUL)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• RUMMAGER
  A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. Hakluyt (more info) 1. One
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• CATCHER
  The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• CATCHWORD
  The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
• SUPERVISE
  to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and 1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. 2. To look over so as
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• BEAUCATCHER
  A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• CONY-CATCH
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.