beat up🔊

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

To wake up earlier than.

(obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.

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

(feel guilty and accuse oneself over something) (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. {{q|Usually followed by over or about.}}

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

(WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.

To get something done {{q|derived from the idea of beating for game}}.

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

(dated) To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.

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

(slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.

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

An act of beating up:

(military slang) A raid.

A beating; a hazing.

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

(forestry) A tree planted later than others in a plantation.