beat up

Speech parts

1. beat up - Noun

2. beat up - Adjective

3. beat up - Verb

4. beat up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

damaged by blows or hard usage

give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

gather

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beat-up

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Examples

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. Muhammad Ali

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. Billy Joel

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. Augusten Burroughs

I'm not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers. Woody Allen

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live. Rich Mullins

I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?' Bill Hicks

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