beat up

Verb

 * 1)  To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
 * 2)  To attack suddenly; to alarm.
 * 3) * 1777 June 7, Anthony Wayne, letter to Sharp Delany from the Camp at Mount Prospect 7th June 1777, in 1893, Charles Stillé, Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army, page 6:
 * Our people are daily gaining Health Spirits and Discipline &mdash; the spade & pick axe throw'd aside &mdash; for the British Rebels to take up &mdash; they notwithstanding affect to hold us cheap and threaten to beat up our Quarters — if we don’t beat up theirs first which is in Contemplation, this in time.
 * 1) To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
 * 2) * 2008 October 29, on  (a British TV program):
 * He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly.
 * 1)   To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something.
 * 2)  To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
 * 3) To get something done.
 * 4)  To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
 * 5)  To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
 * 6)  To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
 * He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly.
 * 1)   To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something.
 * 2)  To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
 * 3) To get something done.
 * 4)  To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
 * 5)  To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
 * 6)  To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
 * 1)  To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.

Synonyms




Translations

 * Armenian:, , քացու տակ գցել, ծեծ տալ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zmlátit
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, antaa turpaan; saada selkäänsä
 * French: flanquer une tripotée,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: greasáil
 * Italian:, rompere le ossa
 * Khmer:, វាយដំ, វាយដំច្រំធាក់
 * Korean:
 * Latin: mulcō
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: bił ndzíłtsʼin
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, , pobijać,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: zbiť, zmlátiť
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: bugbugin
 * Thai:, ,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish: tehdä yllätyshyökkäys,
 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Tagalog: mambugbog, mabugbog


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Thai:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: saada valmiiksi
 * German: es aufnehmen mit


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * German: die Werbetrommel rühren

Adjective

 * 1)  Battered by time and usage; beaten up.

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with upbeat.

Noun

 * 1) A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
 * 2) An act of beating up:
 * 3)  A raid.
 * 4) A beating; a hazing.
 * 5)  An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
 * 6) * 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
 * 7)  A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
 * 1)  An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
 * 2) * 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
 * 3)  A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
 * 1) * 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
 * 2)  A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
 * 1) * 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
 * 2)  A tree planted later than others in a plantation.