beat up

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verb

1. give a beating to;
subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
- 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,
lam, clobber, baste, batter, spank,
paddle, larrup
• Entailment:
hit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to beat up the prisoners
2. gather
- drum up support
• Syn:
drum up, rally
• Hypernyms:
collect, pull in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something