roughs (up)
verb
1
as in pounds
to strike repeatedly she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- pounds
- licks
- hides
- lashes
- does
- beats
- attacks
- assaults
- whips
- pelts
- slaps
- hits
- batters
- punches out
- knocks
- works over
- punches
- thumps
- messes (up)
- bats
- spanks
- slams
- smashes
- raids
- mauls
- chops
- clubs
- pummels
- buffets
- storms
- boxes
- slates
- hammers
- threshes
- beats up on
- smacks
- bludgeons
- lathers
- paddles
- bashes
- belabors
- curries
- belts
- switches
- fibs
- tans
- bungs up
- whales
- wounds
- wallops
- pommels
- bastes
- birches
- laces
- thrashes
- whacks
- lambastes
- drubs
- swipes
- flogs
- whaps
- slogs
- whops
- whups
- lambasts
- rushes
- swats
- pastes
- cracks
- straps
- tromps
- socks
- lays on
- lams
- cudgels
- besets
- thwacks
- whams
- cuffs
- clouts
- fustigates
- assails
- jumps (on)
- clobbers
- scourges
- descends (on or upon)
- canes
- busts
- flagellates
- leathers
- blackjacks
- pistol-whips
- horsewhips
- cowhides
- rawhides
- lacerates
- gores
- whomps
- pounces (on or upon)
- maims
- mutilates
- mangles
2
as in abuses
to abuse physically the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club Synonyms & Similar Words
- abuses
- attacks
- ambushes
- tortures
- maltreats
- mauls
- manhandles
- beats
- hurts
- mishandles
- ill-uses
- ill-treats
- wounds
- injures
- roughhouses
- slaps
- harms
- wrongs
- pummels
- wrestles
- misuses
- batters
- licks
- mistreats
- fights
- buffets
- pounds
- persecutes
- hits
- knocks
- drubs
- torments
- gangs up (on)
- pommels
- jumps
- thrashes
- lambastes
- oppresses
- bashes
- assails
- clobbers
- lambasts
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- caresses
- cares (for)
- pets
- fondles
- pampers
- fosters
- coddles
- nurtures
- mollycoddles