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do over

• beat someone up.
• "let's do them over and dump them somewhere"
Similar: beat up, assault, attack, mug, batter, thrash, pummel, pound, knock about, knock around, work over, clobber, rough up, fill in, let someone have it, have a go at, duff someone up, beat up on,
• ransack a place, especially while searching for something worth stealing.
• "her flat had been done over—the evidence was all too clear"
• decorate or furnish a room or building.
• "the flat was done over by a local designer"
• repeat something.
• "to absorb the lesson, I had to do it over"

do-over noun

• an instance or chance of doing something for a second or further time, after an unsuccessful or unsatisfactory first attempt.
• "if Smokey sings off key, he gets a do-over"


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