Sekirov Dictionary

beat up

/ˈbiːt ˌʌp/

verb 11
noun 7
adjective 2
forms 10

verb11

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to attack someone by hitting them hard again and again, hurting them badly
- I got beaten up by thugs on my way home.
- You don't beat people up, so that you can live in a society where nobody would beat you up.
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to hurt someone or oneself as badly as a violent attack would, through a fall, a crash or any cause other than being hit
- He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly. — 2008
to attack a military target again and again with bombs
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[with oneself] to blame oneself or someone else very strongly for something and make the one blamed feel very guilty
- Don’t beat yourself up over such a minor mistake.
To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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To wake up earlier than (somebody).
- I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once.
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(old-fashioned) to go around trying hard to find people who will help with or take part in a plan or effort
- to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers
To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
(old-fashioned) to disturb someone by visiting them at a bad or unexpected time
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(no longer used) To attack suddenly; to alarm.
- At Breach of Wall, or Hedge-surprize, ¶ She shar’d in th’ hazard and the prize : ¶ At beating quarters up, or forrage, ¶ Behav’d her self with matchlesse courage — 1662

noun7

An act of beating up.
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A beating; a hazing.
- We gave him wedgies and did mock beat-ups. We never hurt him or intended to hurt him, but he went along with our tough guy sort of image, and took it tongue in cheek and got it. — 2008
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(UK, slang) A raid.
- These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties. — 1987
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(Australia, New-Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.
- “It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up." — 2009
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(UK, Australia) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
- To the people of CQ^([Central Queensland]) the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making. — 1995
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A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
- Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty. — 2009
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A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
- The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups. — 2003

adjective2

(slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
(informal) Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair

forms

beated up · beaten up · beating up · beats up · beat ups · beat-ups · more beat up · more beat-up · most beat up · most beat-up

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