0 past simple and past participle of overhaul
1 to repair or improve something so that every part of it works as it should:
I got the engine overhauled.
The government has recently overhauled the healthcare system.
But this is a dynamic rural world that has been radically overhauled socially and economically.
The protocol is poorly designed, and must be overhauled from the bottom up, rethinking all assumptions that have been made.
Furthermore, in line with neo-liberal philosophy, the government also overhauled fisheries management and deregulated the control of resources.
It is in the nature of institutions, particularly tradition-conscious institutions such as armies, to present an unchanging facade while their innards are completely overhauled.
Another fresh strand of thinking is that the very concept of global labour standards should be refashioned, if not overhauled altogether.
Houghton argued that it was local authority housing priorities that must be overhauled before charity was asked to come to the rescue.
The learner's search for personal meaning and relevance had been overhauled by the external world of non-negotiable concepts, structures and formalities and by the inertia of fact and theory.
The machine was thoroughly overhauled and adjusted at the same time.
