work over
verb- To improve a prototype, or first draft. · The estimated figures are not bad, but somebody will have to work them over.
- To physically attack in order to cause injury. · He'll talk, once we work him over.
- To subject (a person) to a severe scolding, interrogation, beating, etc.
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