beat up

beat up Informal

Verb

to inflict severe physical damage on (someone) by striking or kicking repeatedly

Noun

Austral & NZ a small matter deliberately exaggerated

Adjective

beat-up

dilapidated

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	beat up - 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" work over, beat strong-arm - use physical force against; "They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant" soak - beat severely pistol-whip - beat with a pistol belabour, belabor - beat soundly rough up - treat violently; "The police strong-armed the suspect" flog, lash, lather, trounce, welt, whip, slash, strap - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" cane, lambast, lambaste, flog - beat with a cane kayo, knock cold, knock out - knock unconscious or senseless; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds" flail, thrash, lam, thresh - give a thrashing to; beat hard clobber, baste, batter - strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" larrup, spank, paddle - give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
	2.	beat up - gather; "drum up support" drum up, rally collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"