BEATUP

beat up

Noun

  1. A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
  2. An act of beating up:
    1. A raid.
      1. A beating; a hazing.
        1. An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
  3. A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

Verb

  1. To give a severe beating to.
    I got beaten up by thugs on my way home.
  2. To attack suddenly; to alarm.
  3. To cause by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
  4. 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.
  5. Repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
  6. To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game
  7. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

Adjective

  1. Battered by time and usage; beaten up.


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