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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overhaul.

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Examples

  • The cursor issue is a known issue (not unique to MXC) but the cursor should appear if you click anywhere in the reply box and start typing. (not ideal, I know, but it won't change until the forum software is next overhauled, which is not currently a high priority as most focus is on overhauling the main site software to bring it into the 21st century!)

    Different Versions of MexConnect? 2008

  • The cursor issue is a known issue (not unique to MXC) but the cursor should appear if you click anywhere in the reply box and start typing. (not ideal, I know, but it won't change until the forum software is next overhauled, which is not currently a high priority as most focus is on overhauling the main site software to bring it into the 21st century!)

    Different Versions of MexConnect? 2008

  • The cursor issue is a known issue (not unique to MXC) but the cursor should appear if you click anywhere in the reply box and start typing. (not ideal, I know, but it won't change until the forum software is next overhauled, which is not currently a high priority as most focus is on overhauling the main site software to bring it into the 21st century!)

    Different Versions of MexConnect? 2008

  • When the ship comes into port it is found that her furnaces must be "overhauled," her grate bars renewed, her braces restored, her boilers patched, sometimes all over, several of their plates taken out, thousands of rivets removed and supplied, and probably dozens of tubes also removed and replaced with new ones.

    Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

  • The packs, saddles, and stores were "overhauled," and found for the most part to be completely rotted, from the constant rain and severe duckings they had undergone, making the party congratulate themselves that they were near their destination.

    Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880

  • Let us thank God, however, he does not do so often, and even at the risk of being "overhauled" for exceeding his duty, the Sergeant finds, or makes, a place for those who seek his assistance in this way.

    Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • Times that the Obama administration had "overhauled" procedures for invoking the states secrets privilege and that it would be invoked only when

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • A Justice Department spokeswoman, Tracy Schmaler, told the Times that the Obama administration had "overhauled" procedures for invoking the states secrets privilege and that it would be invoked only when "absolutely necessary to protect national security."

    Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news Tom Burghardt 2010

  • The family of a man who died when a German doctor gave him a massive overdose while working his first shift in Britain have called on the NHS to suspend all foreign out-of-hours doctors until the system has been "overhauled".

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • We're not saying that Zelda needs to be "overhauled" overnight, especially since the current recipe has done so well in the past.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

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