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Definition(s):
- (v) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
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Usage(s):
- The morning after, embalmers performed their grisly work over open rows of caskets, six of them the small and white coffins of children.
- The technology, he explains, has already been shown to work over a local connection.
- Michael Moore: Sat back and watched the fruits of all my work over these eight long years possibly come true this Tuesday.
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