| 单词 | to beat up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat up to beat up Thesaurus » 1. To tread up by much trampling (cf. 3). 2. To make way against the wind or tide (see 19b). 3. To bring a soft or semi-fluid mass to equal consistency by beating (see 23). 4. (see 30, 31b). 5. to beat up for recruits, etc. (see 27); to beat up quarters (see 28). ΚΠ 1882 Daily Tel. 24 June At the commencement of play the wicket was moderately good, but it was beaten up considerably during the latter half of the Australian innings. 1887 N.E.D. at Beat Mod. ‘We had an egg beaten up and biscuits.’ 6. to beat up: to knock about savagely, to thrash. Originally U.S. Cf. beating-up at beating n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1907 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 157 I wouldn't have a man..that didn't beat me up at least once a week. 1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman i. 27 I found that I'd beat up a couple of policemen when I was drunk. 1928 E. Wallace Flying Squad i. 14 I don't say they intended killing him, but they certainly beat him up. 1938 E. Ambler Cause for Alarm ix. 155 ‘Is he drunk?’.. ‘No—beaten up.’ 1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. 190 We heard the police in the room next door beating up another prisoner. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Aug. 450/2 Mr. Szabo was captured by the AVO and beaten up. 7. to beat it up: = to ‘whoop it up’ (see to whoop up 3b at whoop v. Phrasal verbs). slang. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous revelc1390 ragea1400 roara1450 jet?1518 tirl on the berry?1520 roist1563 roist1574 revel1580 domineer1592 ranta1616 roister1663 scour1673 tory-rory1685 scheme1738 to run the rig1750 gilravagea1760 splore?a1799 spree1859 to go on the (or a) bend1863 to flare up1869 to whoop it up1873 to paint the town (red)1882 razzle1908 to make whoopee1920 boogie1929 to beat it up1933 ball1946 rave1961 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > descend > suddenly and steeply > over an airfield to beat it up1933 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 713/2 James, the son, grows up, ‘beats it up’ a little in Paris, and finally gets a job in Malaya. 1958 Daily Tel. 1 July 11/1 What sort of noise did the neighbours complain about? Did the Purdoms and their friends beat it up a little in the evenings? 8. Aeronautics slang. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1940 Bulletins from Britain 11 Dec. 3 in Amer. Speech (1941) 16 76/1 To beat up, to dive on to a friendly flying field as practice, a gesture of triumph or sheer joie-de-vivre. 1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path 1 I put the old Wimpey into a dive and beat him up—you know, pulled out only a few feet above his head and stooged round him. to beat up 6. to beat up: to knock about savagely, to thrash. Originally U.S. Cf. beating-up at beating n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1907 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 157 I wouldn't have a man..that didn't beat me up at least once a week. 1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman i. 27 I found that I'd beat up a couple of policemen when I was drunk. 1928 E. Wallace Flying Squad i. 14 I don't say they intended killing him, but they certainly beat him up. 1938 E. Ambler Cause for Alarm ix. 155 ‘Is he drunk?’.. ‘No—beaten up.’ 1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. 190 We heard the police in the room next door beating up another prisoner. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Aug. 450/2 Mr. Szabo was captured by the AVO and beaten up. to beat up b. esp. to beat up against the wind. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > strive or make way against wind laveer1598 to weather it on1599 beat1677 to beat up1720 to weather along1836 thrash1855 thresh1857 1720 London Gaz. No. 5827/1 He beat up to Windward. 1784 J. King Cook's 3rd Voy. (1790) V. 1712 We remained several days beating up, but in vain, to regain our former birth. 1836 F. Marryat Pirate xiii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 138 From Carthagena, probably, beating up. to beat up 27. figurative. With up in many constructions, as to beat up for recruits, to beat up the town for recruits, to beat up recruits, and elliptical, to beat up. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist soldiers [verb (intransitive)] recruit1655 beat1696 1696 T. Brookhouse Temple Opened 21 Beating up for Voluntiers, by a New Predication. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 261. ¶1 A Captain of Dragoons..beating up for Recruits in those Parts. 1758 J. Ray Compl. Hist. Rebell. 151 They also endeavour'd to levy Men here, and beat up publickly for that Purpose. 1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in Poems 87 A Sergeant to the fair recruiting came..to beat up for game. 1824 Trevelyan in Life Macaulay (1876) I. iii. 146 Macaulay beat up the Inns of Court for recruits. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iii. v. 171 He tarried..to beat up recruits for his colony. 1879 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. 418 If a poet Beat up for themes, his verse will show it. 1885 Manch. Examiner 8 July 5/3 Any effort to beat up pecuniary help outside the ranks. < as lemmas |
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