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1. Travel past
   "The sports car overhauled all the trucks"
   - pass, overtake
    
2. Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
   "You should overhaul your car engine"; "overhaul the health care system"
   - modernize, modernise [Brit]

1. Periodic maintenance on a car or machine
   "it was time for an overhaul on the tractor"
   - inspection and repair, service
    
2. The act of improving by renewing and restoring
   "they are pursuing a general program of overhaul to the entire property"
   - renovation, redevelopment

Derived forms: overhauled, overhauling, overhauls

Type of: advance, care, go on, improvement, maintenance, march on, move on, pass on, progress, regenerate, renew, upkeep

Encyclopedia: Overhaul