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beat up
Overview of verb beat-up
The verb beat up has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. beat, beat up, work over -- (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students")
2. beat up, drum up, rally -- (gather; "drum up support")
Overview of adj beat-up
The adj beat-up has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) battered, beat-up, beaten-up -- (damaged by blows or hard usage; "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford")
Antonyms of verb beat-up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb beat-up
2 senses of beat up
Sense 1
beat, beat up, work over
Sense 2
beat up, drum up, rally
=> collect, pull in
=> roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
=> store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
=> keep, hold on
=> have, have got, hold
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb beat-up
1 of 2 senses of beat up
Sense 1
beat, beat up, work over
=> strong-arm
=> soak
=> pistol-whip
=> belabour, belabor
=> rough up
=> flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
=> cane, flog, lambaste, lambast
=> knock cold, knock out, kayo
=> thrash, thresh, lam, flail
=> clobber, baste, batter
=> spank, paddle, larrup
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb beat-up
2 senses of beat up
Sense 1
beat, beat up, work over
Sense 2
beat up, drum up, rally
=> collect, pull in
'Cause To' of verb beat-up
Derived Forms of verb beat-up
Domain of verb beat-up
Domain Terms of verb beat-up
Familiarity of verb beat-up
beat up used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb beat-up
2 senses of beat up
Sense 1
beat, beat up, work over
EX: They want to beat up the prisoners
Sense 2
beat up, drum up, rally
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb beat-up
1 of 2 senses of beat up
Sense 2
beat up, drum up, rally
> collect, pull in
=> archive, file away
=> beat up, drum up, rally
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb beat-up
Sense 1
beat, beat up, work over
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Sense 2
beat up, drum up, rally
=> collect, pull in
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Antonyms of adj beat-up
1 sense of beat-up
Sense 1
battered, beat-up, beaten-up
INDIRECT (VIA damaged) -> undamaged
Similarity of adj beat-up
1 sense of beat-up
Sense 1
battered, beat-up, beaten-up
=> damaged (vs. undamaged)
Pertainyms of adj beat-up
Attributes of adj beat-up
Domain of adj beat-up
Domain Terms of adj beat-up
Familiarity of adj beat-up
beat-up used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj beat-up
beat-up
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