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rough up
rough up vb (tr, adverb) 1. informal to treat violently; beat up2. to cause (feathers, hair, etc) to stand up by rubbing against the grainThesaurus| Verb | 1. | rough up - treat violently; "The police strong-armed the suspect"beat up, work over, beat - 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" |
roughadjective1. Having a surface that is not smooth:coarse, cragged, craggy, harsh, ironbound, jagged, ragged, rugged, scabrous, uneven.2. Consisting of or covered with large particles:coarse, grainy, granular, gritty.3. Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms:dirty, heavy, raging, roiled, roily, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly, violent, wild.4. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty.5. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort:bitter, brutal, hard, harsh, severe.6. Hard to deal with or get out of:tight, tricky.Informal: sticky.7. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar.8. Marked by vigorous physical exertion:knockabout, rough-and-tumble, rugged, strenuous, tough.9. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:dry, grating, harsh, hoarse, jarring, rasping, raspy, raucous, scratchy, squawky, strident.10. In a primitive state; not domesticated or cultivated; produced by nature:native, natural, uncultivated, undomesticated, untamed, wild.11. Not perfected, elaborated, or completed:preliminary, sketchy, tentative, unfinished, unperfected, unpolished.12. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship:crude, primitive, raw, rude, unpolished.verbTo be rough or brutal with.Also used with up:knock about (or around), manhandle, slap around.Slang: mess up.phrasal verb
rough in or out
To draw up a preliminary plan or version of:adumbrate, block in (or out), draft, outline, sketch.phrasal verb
rough upTo injure or damage, as by abuse or heavy wear:batter, knock about (or around), mangle, maul.nounA preliminary plan or version, as of a written work:draft, outline, skeleton, sketch.Translations
rough up
rough upTo use physical violence against someone or to push someone around with physical force. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rough" and "up." The mob boss sent around a couple of goons to rough up Thomas for not paying them protection money. I managed to get video footage of the police roughing the man up on the street before arresting him.See also: rough, uprough someone upto beat someone up; to maltreat someone. Am I going to have to rough you up, or will you cooperate? The crooks roughed up the old lady before taking her purse.See also: rough, uprough something upto scrape or rub something in a way that makes it rough. All you have to do is rough the ground up, sow the seeds, and then water them. Rough up the surface a little before you paint it.See also: rough, uprough upManhandle, subject to physical abuse, as in The gang was about to rough him up when the police arrived. [First half of 1900s] See also: rough, uprough upv.1. To cause something to become less smooth: Rough the wood up so that the glue will hold better. The ice skates roughed up the surface of the ice.2. To treat someone roughly or with physical violence; manhandle someone: The bully roughed up one of the kids on the playground. They threatened to rough me up if I didn't give them the money.See also: rough, uprough someone up tv. to beat someone up; to mistreat someone. Am I going to have to rough you up, or will you cooperate? See also: rough, someone, upEncyclopediaSeeroughrough up
Related to rough up: look to, stick to, shy away from, in view of, scrutinised, dropped offWords related to rough upverb treat violentlyRelated Words |