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单词 beat someone up
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beat someone up

1Assault and injure someone by hitting, kicking, or punching them repeatedly: they threatened to beat him up if he didn’t hand over the money...
  • The youngsters have kicked his door, threatened to beat him up and thrown eggs at his door in Manor Road, Dovercourt.
  • It's a social problem, where it's becoming acceptable to attack people and beat them up in this way.
  • I used to dread getting the results of tests because my name would always be called out first, as the highest score and then classmates would threaten to beat me up during the break.
1.1 (beat oneself up) informal Reproach or criticize oneself excessively.May be we should just accept the fact that with this season ‘to be merry’, comes a certain dose of celebratory excess, and not beat ourselves up for it....
  • Stop beating yourself up about your weight; you are fine as you are!
  • Let's stop beating ourselves up about this and make use of it.

Synonyms

assault, attack, mug, batter, thrash, pummel, pound
informal knock about/around, do over, work over, clobber, rough up, fill in, kick in, jump, paste, lay into, lace into, sail into, pitch into, get stuck into, beat the living daylights out of, let someone have it
British informal have a go at, duff someone up
North American informal beat up on
See parent entry: beat
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