to blame or criticize yourself or someone else
to hurt someone by hitting or kicking them many times
A husband who beat up his wife in a row over rubbish going into the wrong recycling bins is facing jail.
He and his henchman kidnapped and beat up a borrower who had ended up owing £250,000 in interest alone.
He did a year for beating up a pub landlord and trying to cover it up.
He quaffed back his beer and strode through the beat-up hotel lobby.
He sat in the chair, his elbows resting on the beat-up table, embarrassed at what his answer had to be.
I got beat up in the jungle.
I'm glad you got an old beat-up car instead of a gross Cadillac or something.
It’s time you stopped beating yourself up over this.
Kenneth would send him and he'd come like a beat-up, punch-drunk fighter; useless and straight into the trap.
They threatened to beat me up if I didn’t give them my wallet.
beats up
beating up
beaten up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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