beat up

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
2. (transitive) To wake up earlier than.
3. (obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.
4. To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
5. (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
6. To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
7. (WW2-air-pilots'-usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
8. To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
9. (intransitive) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
10. (dated, intransitive) To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
11. (dated, intransitive) To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.

Adj

Battered by time and usage; beaten up.

Noun

1. A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
2. (UK, slang) An act of beating up:
3. An act of beating up:
4. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
5. A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

Synonyms

hit

beat

thrash

knock down

work over

hurt

smack

injure

harm

pound

💷

strike

do over

flog

assault

wallop

whip

drum up

batter

punish

bash up

clobber

spank

bash

belabour

rally

overpower

fight

welt

slug

slap

stir

stir up

summon

swipe

thresh

thump

torture

trash

vanquish

whisk

whomp

give a beating

knock around

lay into

waste

bang out

assail

lower the boom

bang

baste

Translations

tabasser

bastonare

battre

verprügeln

picchiare

battere

aporrear

malmenare

golpear

apalear

matraquer

maltraiter

frapper

rosser

pestare