transitive. To beat to pieces, to destroy by beating (Old English); to beat severely, belabour, thrash. Often emphasized by all (all, adv. 4). Also a…

transitive. To hit or beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently, esp. as a punishment, usually with an implement such as a stick or whip…

transitive. To beat, thrash. Chiefly in collocation with beat.

absol. and intransitive. To deal blows; to make an attack. Chiefly in phraseological expressions with… to lay onor upon: to attack vigorously, to…

transitive. To beat, thrash.

transitive. To beat severely, thrash, thump; to pelt.

transitive. To strike or hit, esp. lightly or gently. Now chiefly in sporting contexts: to strike, kick, or play (the ball, etc.) lightly or…

Ironically. To ‘dress,’ giving a dressing to, drub, thrash; discomfit, rout. Cf. deray, n. Obsolete.

transitive. To beat about, thrash.

transitive. Originally: to beat, thrash (a person or animal). In later use chiefly: to strike (a person) with the fist, to punch, to cuff; (now…

To beat (the flesh) from, (the blood) out of.

transitive. To beat severely; to cover with bruises or stripes.

transitive. To pound, to batter; to strike or beat with repeated blows; to thrash; to pelt; †to strike down (obsolete). Cf. pell, v. 2.

transitive. To strike; to beat severely. Also intransitive: to deal a blow or blows. Cf. rout, n.2 2. Scottish after 15th cent.

intransitive. To deliver blows to the head. With on.

transitive. To beat, belabour.

To strike, beat, or attack (with blows, or with mockery, sarcasm, rebuke, or the like). Now dialect or slang.

figurative. To beat, thrash, trounce; to defeat; also, to reprimand, reprove, upbraid, scold (cf. ‘to give one a dressing’).

transitive. To beat or thrash (a person, animal, etc.), esp. with a stick or other implement; to flog.

transitive. To beat, drub (a person). Similarly to waulk (a person's) coat. Now Scottish (rare).

To pass or go lightly or quietly; to move quickly and softly, without attracting notice; to glide or… With in, into. Also figurative, and in…

transitive. Now colloquial. To inflict severe suffering or punishment on (a person); to hit repeatedly, beat severely. Also: †to ruin, destroy (obs…

transitive. To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.

humorously. To beat, thrash; = comb, v.1 3.

black and blue: (of the human body) discoloured by bruises caused by beating, pinching, etc. Frequently in to beat (a person) black and blue…

transitive. To swinge, beat soundly. Also figurative.

transitive. To hit with something hard or solid, as a stone, fist, etc.; to beat, pound, pummel. Also figurative.

To beat, thrash, belabour, cudgel; to beat by way of punishment, to flog.

transferred. To knock about, shake and shatter thoroughly; to buffet; to beat, batter, drub. Obsolete.

To beat soundly. colloquial. Obsolete.

(with a cudgel or with gravy).

transitive. ? To thrash, lay about.

transitive. To give a beating to (a person); to beat soundly, thrash. Cf. bumbaste, v., feague, v.

transitive. To inflict ‘dry blows’ upon (see dry, adj. 12); to beat soundly or severely.

transitive. To beat, whip. Also figurative.

transitive. To beat, thrash. Also figurative.

transitive. To claw or scratch with the open hand and nails; to beat, thrash, drub. (Jamieson says ‘To fight at arm's length, to strike a blow as…

transitive. To hit or beat (a person or animal), esp. as a punishment, usually with an implement such as a stick or whip; to strike repeatedly and…

transitive. To thrash.

transitive. To beat soundly; to thrash; to ‘whack’. Now colloquial or dialect.

To beat, thrash, ‘swaddle’.

transitive. To give a beating to (a person); = bumfeage, v.

To thrash or buffet with all one's might.

To beat, flog, thrash, belabour. Also figurative = taw, v.1 3a 3b Obsolete.

(see quot. 1611); also (after baste, v.3) to beat about the body.

transitive. To beat, thrash. Now colloquial or dialect.

The threat ‘I'll feeze you’ seems to have given rise to the following senses. To beat, flog.

slang. transitive. To beat, strike, thrash; to fight, overcome (cf. mill, n.4, mill, v.2); (occasionally) to kill. Obsolete.

transitive. To beat or strike so as to cause pain, esp. by way of punishment. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To thump soundly. Also figurative.

transitive. To beat, to buffet. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To maul thoroughly.

To beat, thump (anything); to thrash. Obsolete.

transitive. To beat and bruise (a person); to maltreat, to knock about.

Explained in glossaries as: To assail with fists and nails, to beat and beclaw; but in use apparently = batter, v.1 1.

= dry-beat, v.

transitive. To beat, thrash. colloquial.

transitive to thump or beat with thundering strokes.

transitive. To ‘beat to a jelly’, beat severely.

= dry-beat, v.

transitive. To beat, pummel. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To reprimand or chastise (a person); to rebuke, scold, admonish. Now rare (English regional (northern) in later use).

transitive. To beat, to thrash.

transitive. To beat, flog, thrash.

transitive. To cudgel, beat.

figurative. To thrash: esp. in to brush one's coat for him. Obsolete. (Cf. to dust a person's jacket at jacket, n. phrases 3.)

transitive. To knock or beat severely; to squash, squeeze flat. Now dialect.

transitive. To beat, thrash (a person); frequently in to raddle (a person's) bones and variants.

transitive. to tan (a person's) hide, also simply to tan (a person): to thrash soundly. slang or colloquial. (Cf. hide, v.2 2) Occasionally intrans…

transitive. To beat or slap vigorously. dialect.

transitive. To bump thoroughly, to belabour.

to give (a person) his load: to beat soundly.

transitive. To beat, thrash.

slang. To beat, cudgel, thrash. (Cf. towel, n. 3.) Also (Australian) with up; also figurative.

colloquial. to kick (a person's) ass (also butt, arse): to attack or harm (a person) physically, esp. in order to punish or subdue; to beat up…

transitive. ? To thump, beat. (The quot. 1790 represents the speech of black people; but cf. fum-fum n. (b) at derivatives.)

transitive. To strike or fell (a person) with a heavy blow; to beat or thrash. Also: to dash (a person) against something.

To beat, thrash. dialect.

to beat (also scare,etc.) someone's daylights out, (now usually) to beat (also scare,etc.) the (living) daylights (also daylight) out of: to beat…

transitive. slang (originally Boxing). To strike (a person) in the face; to fight, beat up, assault; to strangle. Also intransitive.

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week: to give (him) a decisive blow, to punish severely; to astound, flabbergast. slang (originally Pugili…

To beat, thrash.

To beat the hide or skin of; to flog, thrash. (See also hiding, n.2) slang or colloquial.

To beat or thrash severely.

To reprimand, scold loudly; to beat, thrash.

transitive. colloquial. To beat soundly, belabour, thrash; also occasionally used as humorously for beat, v.1 in figurative senses, e.g. to get the…

transitive. To beat, thump, thrash (a person). Obsolete.

absol. and intransitive. To deal blows; to make an attack. Chiefly in phraseological expressions with… to lay into: to belabour; to ‘pitch into’…

(Anglo-Irish.) To beat, flog. In quot. 1841 absol.

transitive. slang. To hit on the mouth; to land a blow on (a person). Obsolete.

slang. transitive. To beat, thrash, strike hard (cf. baste, v.3, anoint, v. 6, noint, v. 2). Also: to inflict heavy damage on by shooting, bombing…

transitive. To give (a person) a severe beating; to thrash.

transitive. To beat, thrash.

U.S. slang. To beat, thrash.

To ‘do for’ (a person), to beat.

transitive. slang. To disable, wear out, tire out; to bring down, defeat; to handle (a person) roughly; to beat up.

transitive. colloquial and English regional. To beat, thrash. Cf. jacketing, n. 3, to dust (also thrash, tan, etc.) a person's jacket at jacket, n.…

slang (originally U.S.). to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person) and variants: to beat or attack a person severely.

transitive. To beat or thrash severely; to subject to severe or brutal criticism; to demolish (literal and figurative).

To beat or batter.

to beat (knock,etc.) the tar out of: to beat unmercifully, to reduce to a state of helplessness. Cf. to —— the shit out of (a person or thing) at shit…

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing): to —— (a person or thing) to an excessive or violent degree. Cf. to beat the living shit out of (a person…

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To beat up.

to —— (the) hell out of (a person or thing): to —— (a person or thing) to an excessive, violent, or unpleasant degree. Cf. to —— the fuck out of (a p…

slang. to knock (also beat, kick, etc.) — bells out of (with — as a variable number): to beat or thrash severely. Also (similarly): to scare (also fri…

colloquial or slang. U.S. slang. To punish, beat, pummel, strike hard, etc.; to criticize harshly, to ‘knock’; to soak it to (one) = to sock it to at…

transitive. Originally U.S. to punch out: to knock (a person) out by punching; to beat up.

To thrash or beat (a person); to punch or strike; to fight.

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To beat (a person) up, esp. severely. Cf. to do over 4 at do, v. phrasal verbs 2.

to beat up: to knock about savagely, to thrash. Originally U.S. Cf. beating-up at beating, n. 1b.

transitive. Chiefly U.S. to punch up: to assault with punches, to beat up. Cf. punch-up, n.

transferred. To deal with vigorously and with success, esp. to beat or thrash; to defeat heavily, as in sporting contexts; to ruin or wreck (a motor…

slang. To beat, thrash, punish.

colloquial. In to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing): to —— (a person or thing) to an excessive or violent degree.

transitive. Chiefly with up: to beat (a person) up, to thrash. Also in extended use.

To hit; to thrash or ‘beat up’; to defeat, shoot down; to reprimand or criticize severely.

(See quot. 1948.) slang.

To strike with a heavy blow that tends to beat or smash in the surface struck. to bash up, to beat (someone) repeatedly; to thrash or batter. Cf…

slang. to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing): to —— (a person or thing) to an excessive or violent degree, esp. in to —— seven shades…

slang. to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing): to —— (a person or thing) to an excessive or violent degree. Cf. to knock (also beat, kick, et…

slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). transitive. To assault or beat up (a person). Also intransitive with on.

to curry one's hide, belabour.

slang. trans. To beat; to rate soundly.