overhaul

1. 1.

   travel past

   “The sports car passed all the trucks”

   Synonymspassovertake

   Broaderadvance

   Narrowerget byclear
2. 2.

   make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

   “You should overhaul your car engine”

   “overhaul the health care system”

   Synonymsmodernizemodernise

   Broaderregenerate

   Narrowerretrofit

Other forms of overhaul

plural

overhauls·

past tense

overhauled·

present participle

overhauling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overhaul

What does overhaul mean?

overhaul means "periodic maintenance on a car or machine". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overhaul?

overhaul has 3 syllables: o-ver-haul. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌhɔl/.

What is another word for overhaul?

Close synonyms include inspection and repair, service, renovation, redevelopment, pass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overhaul a common word?

overhaul is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overhaul?

6 words rhyme with overhaul. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.