beat up
Meanings
verb
- To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
- To wake up earlier than.
- To attack suddenly; to alarm.
- To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
- To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
- To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
- To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
- To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
- To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
adj
- Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
noun
- A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
- An act of beating up:
- A raid.
- A beating; a hazing.
- An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
- A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
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