overhaulnoun/ˈəʊvəˌhɔːl/

• 1

  A major repair, renovation, or revision.

  • The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.
  • One aim of the move [from Nine Elms] had been to speed up the overhaul of the company's locomotive stock and to reduce costs with more efficient workshop facilities, in what Dugald Drummond claimed to be "the most complete and up-to-date works owned by any railway company".
• 2

  firefightinggovernmentThe 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.

overhaulverb/ˌəʊvəˈhɔːl/

• 1

  To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.

  • While the engines are dealt with in the diesel shop, their parent locomotives are overhauled in the erecting shop.
  • In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
• 2

  To pass, overtake, or travel past.

  • An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
  • 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.
• 3

  nauticaltransportTo keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.

• 4

  To search (a ship) for contraband goods.

• 5

  firefightinggovernmentTo carry out an overhaul.