beat-up

  • (s) damaged by blows or hard usage
    • a battered old car
    • the beaten-up old Ford
    battered, beaten-up,

Verbs

  • (v) 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
    work over, beat,
  • (v) gather
    • drum up support
    drum up, rally,

Synonyms

battered beaten-up work over beat drum up rally

Words of close approximity

beat in