beating up on
phrase
1
as in attacking
to take sudden, violent action against A brawl broke out and the players all started beating up on each other. Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- attacking
- raiding
- assaulting
- flying at
- setting on
- setting at
- rounding on
- setting upon
- storming
- going at
- tearing into
- pitching into
- striking
- lighting into
- turning (on)
- descending (on or upon)
- going in (on)
- jumping (on)
- pouncing (on or upon)
- charging
- robbing
- ambushing
- rushing
- invading
- bushwhacking
- assailing
- swarming
- besetting
- siccing
- ganging up (on)
- trashing
- sicking
- surprising
- banging away (at)
- flanking
- sacking
- bombing
- mobbing
- ambuscading
- mugging
- besieging
- blitzing
- waylaying
- nuking
- ravaging
- bombarding
- battering
- cannoning
- looting
- plundering
- cannonading
- buffeting
- bum-rushing
- plastering
- pillaging
- barraging
- surprizing
- beleaguering
- enveloping
- harrying
- pressing
- overrunning
- foraying
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- protecting
- defending
- covering
- securing
- guarding
- shielding
2
as in tying into
to criticize harshly and usually publicly She beat up on me in front of everyone for arriving late. Synonyms & Similar Words
- attacking
- tying into
- slamming
- sailing into
- lighting into
- scolding
- jumping (on)
- abusing
- criticizing
- blasting
- vituperating
- potshotting
- insulting
- scathing
- savaging
- assailing
- bashing
- excoriating
- cursing
- castigating
- lambasting
- belaboring
- harassing
- trashing
- blackguarding
- aspersing
- putting down
- berating
- reviling
- imprecating
- blaspheming
- lashing (out)
- reprimanding
- lacing (into)
- affronting
- haranguing
- harrying
- execrating
- whipping
- disparaging
- belittling
- slurring
- slandering
- profaning
- vilifying
- libeling
- chiding
- fulminating
- traducing
- chastising
- rebuking
- libelling
- bad-mouthing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- complimenting
- praising
- commending
- hailing
- lauding
- acclaiming
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as in licking
to strike repeatedly They beat up on the piñata until it finally broke open. Synonyms & Similar Words
- licking
- hiding
- pounding
- punching out
- working over
- lashing
- doing
- beating
- bunging up
- whipping
- attacking
- hitting
- knocking
- pelting
- battering
- slapping
- punching
- spanking
- batting
- smashing
- thumping
- assaulting
- slamming
- mauling
- pommeling
- roughing (up)
- laying on
- chopping
- bashing
- messing (up)
- raiding
- pommelling
- paddling
- pummeling
- switching
- tanning
- hammering
- boxing
- clubbing
- slating
- buffeting
- whopping
- currying
- drubbing
- thrashing
- smacking
- lathering
- basting
- flogging
- threshing
- whaling
- bludgeoning
- storming
- fibbing
- belting
- lamming
- descending (on or upon)
- lacing
- lambasting
- belaboring
- whacking
- wounding
- jumping (on)
- slogging
- walloping
- swiping
- pummelling
- whapping
- pouncing (on or upon)
- whupping
- tromping
- birching
- cracking
- rushing
- pasting
- swatting
- strapping
- assailing
- cowhiding
- blackjacking
- besetting
- cuffing
- clobbering
- fustigating
- rawhiding
- socking
- busting
- caning
- thwacking
- whamming
- scourging
- cudgelling
- cudgeling
- flagellating
- clouting
- lacerating
- goring
- whomping
- leathering
- maiming
- mutilating
- horsewhipping
- pistol-whipping
- mangling
