OVERHAULED Synonyms: 10 Similar and Opposite Words

overhauled

verb

past tense of overhaul

as in caught

to move fast enough to get even with in the final moments of the race, the horse in the rear sped forward at a furious pace and overhauled the horse that had been leading

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Recent Examples of overhauled Sanders overhauled Colorado’s roster by bringing in more than 40 transfers this offseason. — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Canva debuted Visual Suite, its suite of productivity tools, in 2022, and overhauled it in April 2025 to add spreadsheets and coding tools. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 North Carolina has overhauled its offense and brought in Bobby Petrino as offensive coordinator for Belichick’s second season. — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 His insistence on winning is why the Sky overhauled the roster in earnest during each recent offseason, giving up a bevy of draft capital in the process. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 His administration has also overhauled a federal database maintained by DHS to verify citizenship and immigration status. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 The channel has overhauled its lineup and inked content deals with upstarts like Crooked Media in order to reach beyond its base. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026 Ford said today that its next-generation electric vehicle — recently dubbed Fathom — will go into production at the automaker’s recently overhauled Louisville Assembly Plant in the first quarter of 2027. — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2026 Zhu tamed rampant inflation, overhauled the currency system and weathered the Chinese economy through Asia’s financial crisis in 1997. — Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026

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Verb

Summit caught the turnover bug as the Jaguars lost to Red Oak 20-15.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
As a result, Japan finds itself in a precarious position, caught between a lack of locals to fill roles in the workforce and a distrust of immigrants who can provide labor.

— Christine Miyawaki, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026

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Mining the moribund annals of art history, the duo create tenderly wrought paintings and drawings that often revisit the aesthetics of the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires, which overtook large swaths of the artists’ native Croatia for centuries.

— Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Messi now has an MLS-leading 18 goals on the season and overtook Petar Musa of FC Dallas in the Golden Boot race.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of overtook

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