BEAT UP
Dictionary entry overview: What does beat up mean?
• BEAT UP (verb)
The verb BEAT UP has 2 senses:
1. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
2. gather
Familiarity information: BEAT UP used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEAT UP (verb)
Meaning:
Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
beat up; work over; beat
Context examples:
Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night / The teacher used to beat the students
"Beat up" entails doing...:
hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "beat up"):
strong-arm (use physical force against)
baste; batter; clobber (strike violently and repeatedly)
flail; lam; thrash; thresh (give a thrashing to; beat hard)
kayo; knock cold; knock out (knock unconscious or senseless)
cane; flog; lambast; lambaste (beat with a cane)
flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip (beat severely with a whip or rod)
rough up (treat violently)
belabor; belabour (beat soundly)
pistol-whip (beat with a pistol)
soak (beat severely)
larrup; paddle; spank (give a spanking to; subject to a spanking)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to beat up the prisoners
Meaning:
Gather
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
drum up; rally; beat up
Context example:
drum up support
Hypernyms (to "beat up" is one way to...):
collect; pull in (get or bring together)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
