beat up

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• verb transitive To give a severe beating to.
• verb To attack suddenly; to alarm.
• verb To cause by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
• verb reflexive To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. Usually followed by over or about.
• verb military Repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
• verb To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game
• verb intransitive, nautical To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• adjective slang Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
• noun A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
• noun An act of beating up:
• noun UK, Australia, New Zealand An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
• noun forestry A tree planted later than others in a plantation.