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English verb: beat up | |||
| 1. | beat up (contact) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | ||
| Samples | Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night. The teacher used to beat the students. | ||
| Examples | They want to beat up the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | beat, work over | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | baste, batter, belabor, belabour, cane, clobber, flail, flog, flog, kayo, knock cold, knock out, lam, lambast, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, paddle, pistol-whip, rough up, slash, soak, spank, strap, strong-arm, thrash, thresh, trounce, welt, whip | ||
| Entail | hit | ||
| 2. | beat up (contact) gather | ||
| Samples | Drum up support. | ||
| Synonyms | drum up, rally | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | collect, pull in | ||
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