going-over

Noun

going over (plural going overs or goings over)

1. An inspection, examination, review, or investigation.
   • Make sure to give the refurbished products a real going over before they are sold.

   Synonyms:

   audit, check, scrutiny

2. An overhaul.

   Synonyms:

   renovation, repair, revision

3. A severe, thorough scolding.

   Synonyms:

   browbeating, dressing down, objurgation, berating, chiding, chockling, correption, dirdum, down the banks, jawing

4. A sound thrashing, beating.
   • When the mob men finally found him, they gave him a good going over that left him clinging to life.

   Synonyms:

   hiding, pummeling, smackdown, ass beating, ass kicking, battering, beatdown, beating, boom-boom, clobbering

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