beat up

beat up
verb
1. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
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Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night

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The teacher used to beat the students

Syn: ↑beat, ↑work over
Derivationally related forms: ↑beating (for: ↑beat)
Hyponyms:
strong-arm, ↑soak, ↑pistol-whip, ↑belabour, ↑belabor, ↑rough up, ↑flog, ↑welt, ↑whip, ↑lather, ↑lash, ↑slash, ↑strap, ↑trounce, ↑cane, ↑lambaste, ↑lambast, ↑knock cold, ↑knock out, ↑kayo, ↑thrash, ↑thresh, ↑lam, ↑flail, ↑clobber, ↑baste, ↑batter, ↑spank, ↑paddle, ↑larrup
Entailment: ↑hit
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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They want to beat up the prisoners

2. gather
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drum up support

Syn: ↑drum up, ↑rally
Hypernyms: ↑collect, ↑pull in
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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beat up [phrasal verb]
beat up (someone) or beat (someone) up : to hurt or injure (someone) by hitting

A gang of bullies threatened to beat him up.

He was beaten up badly by the bullies.

— sometimes used figuratively

a politician who is getting beat/beaten up by liberal/conservative critics

He's been beating himself up [=he has been harshly blaming or criticizing himself] because of the failure of his marriage.

see also beat-up
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