roughing (up)
verb
1
as in licking
to strike repeatedly she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- licking
- pounding
- hiding
- lashing
- working over
- punching out
- doing
- whipping
- beating
- pelting
- battering
- beating up on
- slapping
- knocking
- attacking
- hitting
- punching
- spanking
- batting
- bunging up
- assaulting
- slamming
- messing (up)
- thumping
- smashing
- mauling
- chopping
- bashing
- threshing
- whopping
- pummeling
- raiding
- tanning
- buffeting
- paddling
- hammering
- clubbing
- switching
- whaling
- currying
- lathering
- bludgeoning
- basting
- boxing
- laying on
- belaboring
- drubbing
- pommelling
- thrashing
- smacking
- slating
- fibbing
- flogging
- belting
- pommeling
- whacking
- lamming
- storming
- lambasting
- wounding
- slogging
- lacing
- walloping
- pummelling
- swiping
- whapping
- tromping
- birching
- whupping
- descending (on or upon)
- jumping (on)
- cracking
- pouncing (on or upon)
- pasting
- rushing
- swatting
- besetting
- strapping
- thwacking
- assailing
- cuffing
- socking
- clobbering
- fustigating
- busting
- cowhiding
- scourging
- caning
- rawhiding
- whamming
- cudgeling
- cudgelling
- blackjacking
- goring
- flagellating
- clouting
- lacerating
- whomping
- maiming
- mutilating
- leathering
- mangling
- horsewhipping
- pistol-whipping
2
as in abusing
to abuse physically the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club Synonyms & Similar Words
- abusing
- attacking
- manhandling
- mauling
- mishandling
- ambushing
- torturing
- beating
- maltreating
- injuring
- hurting
- wounding
- slapping
- battering
- ill-using
- wrestling
- licking
- ganging up (on)
- fighting
- harming
- mistreating
- misusing
- pummeling
- buffeting
- roughhousing
- pommelling
- persecuting
- pounding
- knocking
- drubbing
- wronging
- bashing
- thrashing
- pommeling
- hitting
- oppressing
- lambasting
- jumping
- ill-treating
- pummelling
- assailing
- tormenting
- clobbering
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- caressing
- petting
- caring (for)
- fondling
- pampering
- coddling
- fostering
- nurturing
- mollycoddling