overhaul

English

Etymology

over- +‎ haul.

Pronunciation

• (RP)
  • (noun): enPR: ōʹvə-hôl', IPA: /ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/, X-SAMPA: /"@Uv@%hO:l/
  • (verb): enPR: ō'və-hôlʹ, IPA: /ˌəʊvəˈhɔːl/, X-SAMPA: /%@Uv@"hO:l/
• (GenAm)
  • (noun): enPR: ōʹvər-häl', IPA: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɑl/, X-SAMPA: /"oUv@`%hAl/
  • (verb): enPR: ō'vər-hälʹ, IPA: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɑl/, X-SAMPA: /%oUv@`"hAl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

• Audio (US)

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Noun

overhaul (plural overhauls)

1. A major repair, remake, renovation, or revision.

   The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.

2. (firefighting) the process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite. Often this includes the process of salvage under the blanket term, salvage and overhaul.

Translations

a major repair, remake, renovation, or revision

• Czech: renovace (cs) f, předělání (cs) n, přepracování (cs) n, pročištění (cs) n
• Dutch: opknapbeurt (nl) f, onderhoud (nl) n, herziening (nl) f
• Finnish: huolto (fi), korjaus (fi), kunnostus (fi)
• French: remise à neuf (fr) f
• German: Überholung (de) f, Aufarbeitung (de) f, Grundinstandsetzung (de) f, gründliche Überprüfung (de) f, Revision (de) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overhaling (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: overhaling (nn) f

• Polish: remont generalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: reestruturação (pt) f
• Russian: ремонт (ru) (remónt) m 

Verb

overhaul (third-person singular simple present overhauls, present participle overhauling, simple past and past participle overhauled)

1. To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
2. To pass, overtake, or travel past.
   • 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553025171, page 109:

     In theory there was a runner ahead of him who would pause to sleep. Who would falter and fall. Who would despair at the size of the desert. Because Logan did none of these he would overhaul the runner and kill him.

Translations

to modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely

• Czech: provést generální opravu (cs)
• Dutch: opknappen (nl), herstellen (nl), renoveren (nl), moderniseren (nl)
• Finnish: huoltaa (fi), kunnostaa (fi)
• Norwegian: overhale (no)

• Polish: remontować (pl)
• Russian: ремонтировать (ru) (remontírovat') 
• Spanish: reparación general (es) m

to pass, overtake, or travel past

• Dutch: inhalen (nl)
• Finnish: ohittaa (fi)

• German: überholen (de)
• Polish: wyprzedzić (pl)