beat up

Meanings

To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
To attack suddenly; to alarm.
To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. Usually followed by over or about.
Repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.

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

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