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synonyms for working over

  • seduction
  • alignment
  • blandishment
  • brainwashing
  • cajolery
  • cogency
  • con
  • conversion
  • enticement
  • exhortation
  • force
  • goose
  • hook
  • inducement
  • persuasiveness
  • potency
  • power
  • pull
  • sell
  • squeeze
  • wheedling
  • alluring
  • arm-twist
  • hard sell
  • inveiglement
  • promote
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • sweet-talk
  • winning over
On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to working over, such as: seduction, alignment, blandishment, brainwashing, cajolery, and cogency.

antonyms for working over

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  • disability
  • impotence
  • incompetence
  • ineffectiveness
  • weakness
  • atheism
  • disbelief
  • discouragement
  • dissuasion
  • hindrance
  • prevention
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How to use working over in a sentence

Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
A temporary forge had been set up, and soldiers in leather aprons were working over the fire.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDEMARY ROBERTS RINEHART
As the madman was working over here, I climbed and slipped, and cut steps in the rock face of the cliff, on yon side.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
Tad smiled as he hurried to where the foreman was working over the unconscious cook.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHIN
The sashes are connected with the weights by flax lines working over metal pulleys fixed in the pulley styles.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUS
There were others, he saw, and they were working over a body not far away upon the floor.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE, NOVEMBER, 1930VARIOUS
The message came to David while he was doggedly working over a novel that had just come back from a third publisher.
TO HIM THAT HATHLEROY SCOTT
In working over Hal's clothing the golden locket the youth considered his birthright came to light.
THE MISSING TIN BOXARTHUR M. WINFIELD
The earthworm, in addition to working over and fertilizing the soil already made, actually helps make soil out of rock.
THE ADVENTURES OF A GRAIN OF DUSTHALLAM HAWKSWORTH
Certain exceptions in regard to working over-time are provided for; thus women may sometimes work 14 hours a day.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIAVARIOUS
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