going over
going over noun: an inspection, examination, review, or investigation. Also the present participle and gerund of go over.
Noun
going over (plural going overs or goings over)
- An inspection, examination, review, or investigation.
- Make sure to give the refurbished products a real going over before they are sold.
- After the bankruptcy, our accounts were given a thorough going over.
- An overhaul.
- Synonyms:
- renovation, repair, revision
- A severe, thorough scolding.
- Synonyms:
- browbeating, dressing down, objurgation, berating, chiding, chockling, correption, dirdum, down the banks, jawing
- 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
Verb
going over
- Of a wrestler or wrestlers: to be scheduled to win a match.
Also used as
going over is also the present participle and gerund of go over.
Synonyms of going over
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Forms of going over
| plural | going overs |
|---|---|
| plural | goings over |
| alternative form | going-over |
Questions about going over
- What does going over mean?
- Going over means an inspection, examination, review, or investigation.
- What part of speech is going over?
- Going over can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of going over?
- The plural of going over is going overs.
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