What's another word for
What's the opposite of
Meaning of the word
Words that rhyme with
Sentences with the word
Translate
From English
To English
to
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Farsi
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Burmese
Nepali
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Find Words
All Words
2-Letter Words
3-Letter Words
4-Letter Words
5-Letter Words
6-Letter Words
7-Letter Words
8-Letter Words
9-Letter Words
10-Letter Words
11-Letter Words
12-Letter Words
13-Letter Words
14-Letter Words
Starting With
Ending With
Containing Exactly
Containing the Letters
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
Use * for blank tiles (max 2)
Use * for blank spaces
Advanced Word Finder
Find the
Plural
Singular
Past Tense
Present Tense
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
of
Pronounce the word
in
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Marathi
Nepali
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Find Names
Meaning of the name
Origin of the name
Names meaning
Names starting with
Names of origin
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions
Rhymes
Sentences
Translations
Find Words
Word Forms
Pronunciations
☀
Appearance
✓
Use device theme
✓
Dark theme
✓
Light theme
What is another word for
roughing up
?
Need
synonyms for roughing up
? Here's a list of
similar words
from our
thesaurus
that you can use instead.
Contexts
▼
▲
Verb
Present participle for to physically manhandle or beat up
Present participle for to make rough or coarse
Present participle for to strike or hit repeatedly
Present participle for to be detrimental to
Present participle for to commit acts of thuggery, or behave in a thuggish manner
Noun
An aggressive and violent physical act against a person or object
… more ▼
▲
Verb
▲
Present participle for to physically manhandle or beat up
beating
assaulting
attacking
manhandling
bashing
battering
hitting
abusing
roughhousing
harming
maltreating
mishandling
mistreating
thrashing
beating up
bashing up
ill-treating
beating up on
doing over
knocking about
knocking around
slapping around
working over
duffing up
beating the living daylights out of
striking
laying into
pummelling
UK
pummeling
lacing to
pounding
assailing
hammering
pasting
pitching into
getting stuck into
setting upon
injuring
lighting to
having a go at
letting someone have it
sailing into
tearing into
hurting
mauling
walloping
wallopping
letting fly at
setting about
pouncing on
handling roughly
mugging
bullying
jumping
brutalizing
US
persecuting
turning on
treating badly
kicking around
brutalising
UK
setting on
lashing out at
messing over
ill-using
misusing
falling on
molesting
giving someone a beating
treating roughly
pouncing upon
besieging
falling upon
clobbering
pulverizing
US
damaging
filling in
wronging
pulverising
UK
torturing
victimizing
US
jumping on
aggressing
ambushing
shaking up
striking at
victimising
UK
descending on
descending upon
rushing
pelting
messing up
doing up
charging
drubbing
cutting up
assaulting physically
prostituting
outraging
misemploying
steaming
oppressing
thumping
battling
wounding
firing at
lambasting
invading
getting at
rounding on
giving black eye
harassing
marring
knocking down
beating hollow
beating someone's brains out
beating to a pulp
knocking someone's lights out
banging up
ruining
totaling
interfering with
totalling
bunging up
springing at
flying at
rushing at
running at
busting
launching at
springing on
going after
launching an attack on
rushing upon
wading into
blitzing
launching oneself at
having at
going for
hitting out at
besetting
siccing
making an assault on
going in on
kicking in
storming
beating someone up
neglecting
punishing
more ❯
“He didn't always follow the rules and was known to
rough up
the suspects.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make rough or coarse
roughening
coarsening
abrading
crumpling
harshening
roughing
scratching
toughening
“You can use clay tools to
rough up
the edges to add to the natural look.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to strike or hit repeatedly
birching
flogging
lashing
thrashing
whipping
beating
hiding
switching
tanning
wallopping
walloping
whaling
bashing
basting
batting
battering
belabouring
UK
belaboring
US
belting
bludgeoning
buffeting
buffetting
clubbing
currying
doing
drubbing
fibbing
hammering
lacing
lambasting
lathering
licking
mauling
paddling
pelting
pommelling
pommeling
pounding
pummelling
UK
pummeling
slating
slogging
threshing
thumping
tromping
whapping
whopping
whupping
cowhiding
flagellating
flailing
horsewhipping
leathering
rawhiding
scourging
slashing
bunging up
messing up
punching out
working over
flaying
punishing
striking
hitting
clobbering
smacking
whacking
knocking
punching
banging
clouting
thwacking
cudgelling
UK
cudgeling
US
bopping
biffing
socking
slugging
slapping
caning
pasting
beating up
spanking
rapping
swatting
smiting
slamming
boxing
cracking
assaulting
knocking about
clipping
busting
lamming
knocking around
whomping
beating the living daylights out of
smashing
clocking
laying into
decking
zapping
doing over
attacking
swiping
clapping
beating up on
bonking
nailing
bobbing
tagging
laying one on
welting
knocking into the middle of next week
boffing
strapping
giving someone a hiding
lacing to
raining blows on
larruping
larrupping
tonking
trouncing
plugging
letting someone have it
giving someone a good hiding
lighting to
abusing
cuffing
crushing
manhandling
quilting
chastising
ramming
breaking
bruising
defeating
thudding
sloshing
trashing
donging
maltreating
chinning
mashing
pitching into
giving someone a drubbing
waxing
drawing
forging
drumming
tapping
routing
overwhelming
bumping
assailing
impacting
swinging
slaughtering
annihilating
besting
hitting hard
weighing into
marmalizing
creaming
pulverizing
US
burying
sticking one on
aiming blows at
tearing into
demolishing
destroying
massacring
worsting
flattening
murdering
smoking
shellacking
crucifying
rolling
tanking
smothering
setting about
bashing up
skunking
owning
bombing
dusting
duffing up
blowing away
killing
running rings around
beating to a pulp
taking to the cleaners
having a go at
sailing into
wiping the floor with
getting stuck into
walking over
blowing out of the water
beating hollow
bringing someone to their knees
chastening
defeating utterly
pulverising
UK
getting the better of
winning a resounding victory over
triumphing over
walking all over
blowing out
making mincemeat of
snowing under
striking down
taking a stick to
paddlewhacking
brutalizing
US
shaking
jerking
whisking
contusing
malleating
brutalising
UK
blistering
knobbing
handling
tanning one's hide
fluttering
flapping
feruling
flopping
warming someone's seat
dusting someone's britches
driving
lacerating
wearing out
kicking
mutilating
hitting repeatedly
thumping on
knocking on
setting on
bearing down
breaking face
leaning on
coshing
taking care of
mistreating
putting in the hospital
pulping
filling in
fustigating
blackjacking
assaulting physically
striking with a stick
beating with a stick
beating someone's brains out
knocking someone's lights out
lobbing
bombarding
knocking for a loop
knocking cold
knocking block off
jumping down one's throat
slapping around
falling upon
coming down on
hauling off on
pouncing upon
going for
jumping
mugging
physically attacking
setting upon
crashing
impinging
clumping
jabbing
colliding
conking
crowning
popping
boxing someone's ears
dotting
laying a finger on
flooring
dinging
zonking
thrusting
impelling
injuring
giving a going over
giving someone the works
skinning
giving a lesson to
hurting
skinning alive
giving someone what for
giving it to someone
whamming
giving someone a beating
giving someone a good beating
giving someone a good drubbing
raining blows upon
conquering
overcoming
overpowering
stuffing
trimming
subduing
vanquishing
subjugating
overthrowing
striping
surmounting
totalling
totaling
overmatching
prevailing over
winning against
quelling
mastering
quashing
undoing
hooking
overbearing
getting
taking
stopping
dispatching
upending
swamping
sucker-punching
wiping out
doing down
getting around
blasting
bullwhipping
quirting
overturning
knocking out
KO'ing
torpedoing
outplaying
trampling
subverting
outmaneuvering
US
running rings round
plowing under
outmanoeuvring
UK
taking a strap to
repressing
skelping
steamrolling
castigating
outwitting
humbling
scudding
ruining
whitewashing
sinking
upsetting
reducing
finishing
slaying
edging
dropping
blipping
decimating
obliterating
ambushing
putting an end to
butchering
winning a victory over
routeing
overrunning
picking apart
bringing to ruin
taking to cleaners
mowing down
wiping off the map
outhitting
nosing out
tanning someone's hide
shipwrecking
rolling back
putting over one's knee
pipping at the post
edging out
running roughshod over
outflanking
finishing off
putting paid to
putting down
pwning
giving someone a hot bottom
entrapping
outrunning
taking it all
outjumping
pitching
dominating
uppercutting
subjecting
subordinating
bamming
bushwhacking
percussing
stoning
dabbing
blitzing
braining
whanging
pelleting
yerking
pacifying
blowing
outclassing
outdoing
winning
planting one
taking out
chopping
wasting
outstripping
outsmarting
surpassing
humiliating
bulldozing
downing
patting
letting fly
riding roughshod
putting away
defeating heavily
wiping off the mat
giving someone a pasting
cooking one's goose
fixing one's wagon
putting to flight
cutting to pieces
throwing back in confusion
driving off
blowing out of water
shutting out
beating back
putting to rout
cleaning up on
devastating
giving a black eye
slippering
scathing
excoriating
harassing
giving the cat o'nine tails
punishing severely
gaining the advantage over
doing in
making a fool of
getting one up on
triumphing
checkmating
thwarting
foiling
frustrating
circumventing
shutting down
putting someone in their place
discomfiting
overmastering
trampling underfoot
succeeding over
rising above
throwing
bringing to knees
confounding
overriding
giving someone a licking
putting someone over your knee
windmilling
whirling
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be detrimental to
hurting
harming
damaging
destabilising
UK
destabilizing
US
undermining
weakening
wrecking
compromising
crippling
jeopardising
UK
jeopardizing
US
marring
ruining
sabotaging
subverting
breaking
debilitating
destroying
deteriorating
diminishing
disrupting
hindering
impoverishing
ravaging
spoiling
tarnishing
afflicting
annihilating
blemishing
blighting
corroding
corrupting
crushing
depressing
devitalizing
disabling
dismantling
enervating
impairing
impeding
incapacitating
tainting
trashing
wounding
battering
blasting
bloodying
crabbing
crossing up
debasing
defacing
disfiguring
endamaging
enfeebling
flawing
inconveniencing
injuring
sapping
scorching
shattering
shocking
smashing
torpedoing
vitiating
withering
detracting from
fouling up
interfering with
lousing up
messing up
mucking up
screwing up
shaking up
smashing up
taking out
causing detriment to
doing harm to
wreaking havoc on
putting out of action
putting out of commission
throwing a monkey wrench into
dinging
bruising
totalling
totaling
queering
tweaking
contusing
scratching
maiming
reducing
staining
threatening
devaluing
lessening
sullying
prejudicing
blunting
cheapening
upsetting
invalidating
decreasing
worsening
devaluating
polluting
blotting
unfitting
disqualifying
bending
warping
detracting
mangling
putting the kibosh on
making useless
losing strength
scarring
putting a damper on
hitting
grazing
winging
scraping
gashing
banging up
defiling
vandalizing
US
demolishing
vandalising
UK
disfeaturing
deforming
devastating
mutilating
uglifying
scuppering
scotching
distorting
desecrating
undoing
contaminating
dirtying
smirching
discoloring
US
discolouring
UK
brutalising
UK
brutalizing
US
obliterating
having a bad effect on
cramping
having a negative effect on
tagging
disfashioning
hamstringing
misshaping
contorting
dilapidating
making unattractive
hampering
paralyzing
US
paralysing
UK
making ugly
bankrupting
restricting
limiting
stifling
befouling
soiling
besmirching
spotting
raining on someone's parade
gutting
despoiling
muddying
griming
blackening
smudging
begriming
razing
pillaging
plundering
abusing
cracking
scathing
maltreating
tearing
disintegrating
gnawing
wronging
denting
lacerating
splitting
infecting
knocking
rusting
rotting
burning
sacking
stabbing
bleaching
fading
desolating
depredating
tampering with
wearing away
spoliating
dashing
playing havoc with
doing damage to
nixing
denigrating
tarring
darkening
smearing
marking
banjaxing
playing merry hell with
blowing
euchring
driving a nail into the coffin of
cruelling
squashing
making a mess of
doing for
blowing a hole in
bringing to naught
taking apart
ballsing up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to commit acts of thuggery, or behave in a thuggish manner
thugging
roughing
messing
messing up
messing with
Noun
▲
An aggressive and violent physical act against a person or object
attack
assault
bashing
beating
violence
aggression
harm
punching
abuse
offence
UK
offense
US
assaulting
impugnment
jumping
knocking
vilification
whacking
buffeting
flogging
mauling
pasting
slugging
violation
whipping
battery
belting
boxing
lashing
oppression
thumping
thwacking
totalling
UK
totaling
US
battering
drubbing
hammering
mugging
rout
bludgeoning
denigration
pelting
plastering
slapping
walloping
cuffing
kicking
licking
pounding
rape
shellacking
thrashing
caning
clobbering
flaying
hurt
bopping
hiding
lambasting
smacking
strike
striking
tanning
biffing
harassment
molesting
pummeled
US
pummelling
UK
beating up
beating-up
dirty deed
doing over
doing-over
duffing-up
physical assault
physical attack
physical violence
rough handling
sexual assault
sexual interference
sexual misconduct
violent act
working-over
act of aggression
act of violence
actual bodily harm
grievous bodily harm
manhandling
bullying
injury
mistreatment
rough treatment
impact
force
pummeling
punishment
maltreatment
brutalization
cruelty
persecution
torture
wronging
malevolence
defilement
damage
hitting
molestation
mishandling
exploitation
ill-treatment
neglect
spoiling
ill use
injuring
cyberbullying
domestic violence
interference
indecent assault
wrong
impairment
physical abuse
birching
cudgelling
UK
clubbing
cudgeling
US
chastisement
corporal punishment
horsewhipping
bullwhipping
going-over
trouncing
offensive
hate crime
more ❯
Find more words!
Another word for
Opposite of
Meaning of
Rhymes with
Sentences with
Find word forms
Translate from English
Translate to English
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
Words starting with
Words ending with
Words containing exactly
Words containing letters
Pronounce
Find conjugations
Find names
From Afrikaans
From Albanian
From Amharic
From Arabic
From Armenian
From Azerbaijani
From Basque
From Belarusian
From Bengali
From Bosnian
From Bulgarian
From Catalan
From Cebuano
From Chichewa
From Chinese
From Corsican
From Croatian
From Czech
From Danish
From Dutch
From Esperanto
From Estonian
From Farsi
From Filipino
From Finnish
From French
From Frisian
From Galician
From Georgian
From German
From Greek
From Gujarati
From Haitian Creole
From Hausa
From Hebrew
From Hindi
From Hmong
From Hungarian
From Icelandic
From Igbo
From Indonesian
From Irish
From Italian
From Japanese
From Javanese
From Kannada
From Kazakh
From Khmer
From Korean
From Kurdish
From Kyrgyz
From Lao
From Latin
From Latvian
From Lithuanian
From Luxembourgish
From Macedonian
From Malagasy
From Malay
From Malayalam
From Maltese
From Maori
From Marathi
From Mongolian
From Burmese
From Nepali
From Norwegian
From Polish
From Portuguese
From Punjabi
From Romanian
From Russian
From Samoan
From Scots Gaelic
From Serbian
From Sesotho
From Shona
From Sinhala
From Slovak
From Slovenian
From Somali
From Spanish
From Sundanese
From Swahili
From Swedish
From Tajik
From Tamil
From Telugu
From Thai
From Turkish
From Ukrainian
From Urdu
From Uzbek
From Vietnamese
From Welsh
From Xhosa
From Yiddish
From Yoruba
From Zulu
To Afrikaans
To Albanian
To Amharic
To Arabic
To Armenian
To Azerbaijani
To Basque
To Belarusian
To Bengali
To Bosnian
To Bulgarian
To Catalan
To Cebuano
To Chichewa
To Chinese
To Corsican
To Croatian
To Czech
To Danish
To Dutch
To Esperanto
To Estonian
To Farsi
To Filipino
To Finnish
To French
To Frisian
To Galician
To Georgian
To German
To Greek
To Gujarati
To Haitian Creole
To Hausa
To Hebrew
To Hindi
To Hmong
To Hungarian
To Icelandic
To Igbo
To Indonesian
To Irish
To Italian
To Japanese
To Javanese
To Kannada
To Kazakh
To Khmer
To Korean
To Kurdish
To Kyrgyz
To Lao
To Latin
To Latvian
To Lithuanian
To Luxembourgish
To Macedonian
To Malagasy
To Malay
To Malayalam
To Maltese
To Maori
To Marathi
To Mongolian
To Burmese
To Nepali
To Norwegian
To Polish
To Portuguese
To Punjabi
To Romanian
To Russian
To Samoan
To Scots Gaelic
To Serbian
To Sesotho
To Shona
To Sinhala
To Slovak
To Slovenian
To Somali
To Spanish
To Sundanese
To Swahili
To Swedish
To Tajik
To Tamil
To Telugu
To Thai
To Turkish
To Ukrainian
To Urdu
To Uzbek
To Vietnamese
To Welsh
To Xhosa
To Yiddish
To Yoruba
To Zulu
English
French
Afrikaans Word
Albanian Word
Arabic Word
Bengali Word
Chinese Word
Croatian Word
Czech Word
Danish Word
Dutch Word
English Word
Finnish Word
French Word
German Word
Greek Word
Hindi Word
Hungarian Word
Icelandic Word
Indonesian Word
Italian Word
Japanese Word
Korean Word
Latin Word
Malay Word
Malayalam Word
Marathi Word
Nepali Word
Norwegian Word
Polish Word
Portuguese Word
Romanian Word
Russian Word
Serbian Word
Slovak Word
Spanish Word
Swahili Word
Swedish Word
Tamil Word
Telugu Word
Thai Word
Turkish Word
Ukrainian Word
Uzbek Word
Vietnamese Word
Welsh Word
All words
2-letter words
3-letter words
4-letter words
5-letter words
6-letter words
7-letter words
8-letter words
9-letter words
10-letter words
11-letter words
12-letter words
13-letter words
14-letter words
Plural of
Singular of
Past tense of
Present tense of
Verb for
Adjective for
Adverb for
Noun for
Meaning of name
Origin of name
Names meaning
Names starting with
Names of origin
roughing up
Use * for blank tiles (max 2)
Advanced Search
Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces
Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder
See Also
What is the opposite of roughing up
?
What is another word for rough up
?
Use our
Synonym Finder
Nearby Words
roughish arrowwood
rough language
rough-legged buzzard
rough-legged hawk
rough lemon
rough lemons
roughing out
roughing in
roughing
rough in
roughies
roughie
Find Synonyms
roughing up
go
Word Tools
Finders & Helpers
Apps
More
Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2023
