Overhaul vs Scrutinize - What's the difference?
overhaul | scrutinize |
A major repair, remake, renovation, or revision.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
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, title= (firefighting) The 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. Often this includes the process of salvage under the blanket term, salvage and overhaul.
To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
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To pass, overtake, or travel past.
* 1967 , edition, ISBN 0553025171, page 109:
(nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
To examine something with great care.
* Ayliffe
* G. W. Cable
To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
As verbs the difference between overhaul and scrutinize
is that overhaul is to modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely while scrutinize is to examine something with great care.As a noun overhaul
is a major repair, remake, renovation, or revision.overhaul
English
Noun
(en noun)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul . Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
Verb
(en verb)Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
- Although they believe they can overhaul their 2-0 deficit, they cannot afford to be as lethargic as this at Camp Nou, and the time is surely approaching when Manuel Pellegrini's faith in Martín Demichelis wavers.
- 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.
scrutinize
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Alternative forms
* scrutinise (Commonwealth)Verb
(en-verb)- to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
- whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize
- Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
