beat up

Definitions

1. 1

   To give a severe beating to

   To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.

   • I got beaten up by thugs on my way home.
   • You don't beat people up, so that you can live in a society where nobody would beat you up.
2. 2

   To wake up earlier than.

   • I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once.
3. 3

   To attack suddenly

   To attack suddenly; to alarm.

   • At breach of wall, or hedge surprise, / She shared i' th' hazard, and the prize: / At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage
   • On this occasion, the diligent prior o St. Andrews assembled 600 horse, with which he assailed the French, beat up their quarters, intercepted their provisions, and cut off their straggling parties.
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   1. 4

      To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.

      • He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly.
   2. 5

      To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or…

      To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)

      • Don’t beat yourself up over such a minor mistake.
   3. 6

      To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.

   4. 7

      To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.

   5. 8

      To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).

   6. 9

      To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

   7. 10

      To disturb

      To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.

   8. 11

      To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.

      • to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers
   9. 12

      Battered by time and usage

      Battered by time and usage; beaten up.

   10. 13

       A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.

       • Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty.
   11. 14

       An act of beating up

       An act of beating up:

       • These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties.
   12. 15

       An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated…

       An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.

       • To the people of CQ^([Central Queensland]) the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making.
       • Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.
       • These debates can be difficult to navigate and are all too easily reduced to simplistic reflections of individual taste and vulnerable to journalistic beat-ups.
   13. 16

       A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

       • The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.

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