adj
Meaning 1
Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
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Usage: slang
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adj
Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
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Usage: slang
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noun
A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
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noun
An act of beating up:
A raid.
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Usage: UK, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
An act of beating up:
A beating; a hazing.
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noun
An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK
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noun
A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
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Topics: business, forestry
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verb
To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To wake up earlier than.
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verb
To attack suddenly; to alarm.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
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verb
To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
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Usage: reflexive
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verb
To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something.
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verb
To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
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Usage: WW2-air-pilots'-usage
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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verb
To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
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verb
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
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Usage: dated, intransitive
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verb
To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
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Usage: dated, intransitive
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verb
gather
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: drum up, rally
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Broader terms: collect, pull in
verb
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: beat, work over
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Narrower terms: strong-arm, soak, pistol-whip, belabour, belabor, rough up, flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce, cane, lambaste, lambast, knock cold, knock out, kayo, thrash, thresh, lam, flail, clobber, baste, batter, spank, paddle, larrup
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Across languages
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