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139 Moby Thesaurus words for "beat up": agitate, all in, batter, battered, beat, beat-up, beaten, beaten up, bedraggled, blowzy, bone-weary, broken-down, bruise, bushed, careless, chintzy, churn, churn up, clabber, clot, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, convulse, cream, curdle, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drained, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, exhausted, fagged out, ferment, flurry, fret, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, gone, grubby, in rags, in ruins, incrassate, informal, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knocked out, loose, lopper, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, paddle, perturb, perturbate, played out, poky, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ready to drop, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, ruffle, ruined, ruinous, rumple, run-down, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shake, shake up, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, sordid, spent, squalid, stir, stir up, swirl, tacky, tattered, thicken, thrash soundly, tired out, tired to death, tottery, trouble, tuckered out, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, upset, used up, washed-up, weary unto death, whacked, whip, whip up, whisk, wiped out, work up, worn-out

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

beat up

verb

1: 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" [syn: beat, work over]
2: gather; "drum up support" [syn: drum up, rally]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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