beat up

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Adjective, Verb (transitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb beat up has 2 senses

  • beat up(v = verb.contact) beat, work over - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
  • Sample sentence:
    They want to beat up the prisoners
  • beat up(v = verb.contact) drum up, rally - gather; "drum up support"
  • is one way to collect, pull in
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something

THESAURUS

beat up

agitate, all in, batter, battered, beat, beat-up, beaten, beaten up, bedraggled, blowzy, bone-weary, broken-down, bruise, bushed, careless, chintzy, churn, churn up, clabber, clot, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, convulse, cream, curdle, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drained, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, exhausted, fagged out, ferment, flurry, fret, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, gone, grubby, in rags, in ruins, incrassate, informal, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knocked out, loose, lopper, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, paddle, perturb, perturbate, played out, poky, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ready to drop, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, ruffle, ruined, ruinous, rumple, run-down, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shake, shake up, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, sordid, spent, squalid, stir, stir up, swirl, tacky, tattered, thicken, thrash soundly, tired out, tired to death, tottery, trouble, tuckered out, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, upset, used up, washed-up, weary unto death, whacked, whip, whip up, whisk, wiped out, work up, worn-out

ROGET THESAURUS

beat up

Semiliquidity

VB inspissate, incrassate, thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up, sinter.


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