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Definition of overhaul : 1. Alt. of Overhauling
2. To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.
3. To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

Synonyms:

drop dead, expire, spend, hand, evanesce, redevelopment, authorise, renovation, put across, croak, legislate, whelm, pass away, armed service, glide by, go, service, reconstruct, excrete, refurbishment, fall, authorize, serving, modernize, overwhelm, slip by, give, pass, lead, divine service, make pass, return, perish, pass along, change, fade, go along, fall out, transcend, shakeup, revamp, go on, help, pop off, take place, lapse, occur, go through, happen, elapse, decease, exceed, sweep over, devolve, cash in one's chips, guide, housecleaning, hap, slide by, overpower, blow over, overcome, religious service, modernise, turn over, military service, fleet, conk, pass on, service of process, pass by, snuff it, catch up with, right, approach, inspection and repair, patch, draw, exit, surpass, buy the farm, communicate, renew, extend, choke, slip away, serve, repair, catch, clear, die, sink, pass off, restoration, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, go by, eliminate, travel by, top, develop, doctor, egest, overtake, fix up, run, overstep, avail, reach, come about, table service, go past, make it, go across, servicing

darn, restore, improve, rehabilitate, mend, recondition, revive, rejuvenate, reconstitute, renovate, cure, fix, heal

Usage examples:

• Well, madam, it's all the plainest kind of sailing; we can get off at daylight to- morrow morning, and if that yacht sails as they told me she sails, I believe we may overhaul Shirley, and, perhaps, we will get to Kingston before any of them! - "Mrs. Cliff's Yacht", Frank R. Stockton.
• I think I can overhaul her in less than half- an- hour, and then I shall heave to, and wait for you to come aboard. - "The Black Bar", George Manville Fenn.
• However, he had started an ambitious- looking overhaul operation, which looked as though it was good for a hundred hours but which could be dropped on a minute's notice, and under cover of this he had been taking on supplies and ammunition. - "Four-Day Planet", Henry Beam Piper.