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what does beat-up mean?

BEAT-UP as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • damaged by blows or hard usage
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a battered old car
    • the beaten-up old Ford
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what does beat up mean?

BEAT UP as VERB

  1. Meaning
    • gather
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • drum up support
    Hypernyms(s) beat up is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  2. Meaning
    • give a beating to
    • subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
    • The teacher used to beat the students
    Hyponym(s) Derived(s) Entail(s)
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