How to pronounce “beat up”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
• (transitive) To wake up earlier than.
• (obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.
• To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
• (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
• To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
• (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
• To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
• (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• (intransitive, dated) To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
• (intransitive, dated) To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
• [Adjective]
• (slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
• [Noun]
• A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
• An act of beating up:
• (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
• (forestry) A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

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