beat sb up
informal— phrasal verb with beat uk/biːt/us/biːt/verb beat, beaten or US also beat
B2 to hurt someone badly by hitting or kicking them repeatedly:
He claims he was beaten up by the police.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pasting
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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