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going over

alt. 1 An inspection, examination, review, or investigation. 2 An overhaul. 3 A severe, thorough scolding. 4 A sound thrashing, beating. n. 1 An inspection, examination, review, or investigation. 2 An overhaul. 3 A severe, thorough scolding. 4 A sound thrashing, beating. vb. (present participle of go over English)

Usage examples of "going over".

Two of the largest warriors were swept into boulders at the fall line and damaged themselves going over.

And whether this works or not, she thinks, I'll remember going over the Falls forever.

Ive been going over this whole operation in my mind, replaying what worked and what didnt, and why.

In a word, without going over all the journals in the world, there was not a scientific publication, from the Journal of Evangelical Missions to the Revue Algerienne et Coloniale, from the Annales de la Propagation de la Foi to the Church Missionary Intelligencer, that had not something to say about the affair in all its phases.

I'll be going over this planet with an extremely fine-toothed comb.

Then he spent even more time going over the site with every bit of equipment he had.

He and Larry had spent hours going over obscure bits of code and untangling particularly strange demons.

First he bored everyone into a state of stupefaction by going over the previous day's evidence in detail, then adding his obvious agreement to each summation and observation.

Eldred, of course, had been complaining about the delay half a day after ordering the movement, so Jarvi, gruff old warrior, had taken him aside and begun going over with him all that the job required.

From Surat we see him going over to Australia, and in 1845 participating in Captain Sturt's expedition, which had been sent out to explore the new Caspian Sea, supposed to exist in the centre of New Holland.

Lord Ardrian Celtigar had fought beneath the fiery heart on the Blackwater, but once taken, he had wasted no time in going over to Joffrey.

The sea was heavy, and we were compelled to put a purchase on the fore and main yards, with preventers to windward, to ease the launch in going over the side.

The effect was both innocent and obscene: the three of them were going over the guy with their kittenish tongues and their tiny fingers, giving him a thorough workout to the sound of moans and giggles.