roughed (up)
verb
1
as in licked
to strike repeatedly she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- licked
- pounded
- lashed
- whipped
- punched out
- beat
- slapped
- did
- pelted
- battered
- knocked
- attacked
- hided
- spanked
- hit
- punched
- worked over
- slammed
- messed (up)
- assaulted
- smashed
- thumped
- chopped
- batted
- beat up on
- mauled
- pummeled
- buffeted
- bunged up
- bashed
- smacked
- belabored
- pommelled
- bludgeoned
- hammered
- pommeled
- slated
- tanned
- whacked
- whupped
- lathered
- boxed
- paddled
- curried
- clubbed
- thrashed
- fibbed
- threshed
- switched
- flogged
- raided
- lambasted
- basted
- laced
- wounded
- swiped
- laid on
- pummelled
- belted
- whapped
- whopped
- tromped
- walloped
- slogged
- birched
- stormed
- drubbed
- whaled
- cudgeled
- rushed
- pasted
- cracked
- jumped (on)
- swatted
- beset
- strapped
- assailed
- descended (on or upon)
- fustigated
- socked
- clobbered
- cuffed
- pounced (on or upon)
- lammed
- blackjacked
- whammed
- bust
- busted
- scourged
- cowhided
- rawhided
- clouted
- thwacked
- flagellated
- cudgelled
- caned
- leathered
- lacerated
- whomped
- horsewhipped
- mutilated
- maimed
- gored
- mangled
- pistol-whipped
2
as in abused
to abuse physically the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club Synonyms & Similar Words
- abused
- manhandled
- attacked
- tortured
- ambushed
- mauled
- hurt
- mishandled
- beat
- maltreated
- injured
- roughhoused
- slapped
- wounded
- battered
- misused
- harmed
- licked
- wronged
- pommelled
- mistreated
- pummeled
- persecuted
- ganged up (on)
- pommeled
- buffeted
- knocked
- oppressed
- wrestled
- fought
- pounded
- thrashed
- ill-used
- bashed
- hit
- lambasted
- assailed
- ill-treated
- pummelled
- tormented
- drubbed
- jumped
- clobbered
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- caressed
- petted
- fondled
- cared (for)
- pampered
- coddled
- fostered
- nurtured
- mollycoddled