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What is another word for
roughing up
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Verb
Present participle for to physically manhandle or beat up
Present participle for to make rough or coarse
Present participle for to target and strike someone
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
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Verb
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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
ragdolling
handling roughly
mauling
jumping
steaming
mugging
ambushing
setting upon
laying into
knocking down
“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 target and strike someone
doing
bashing
basting
batting
battering
beating
belabouring
UK
belaboring
US
belting
birching
bludgeoning
buffeting
buffetting
clubbing
currying
drubbing
fibbing
flogging
hammering
hiding
lacing
lambasting
lashing
lathering
licking
mauling
paddling
pelting
pommelling
pommeling
pounding
pummelling
UK
pummeling
slating
slogging
switching
tanning
thrashing
threshing
thumping
tromping
wallopping
walloping
whaling
whapping
whipping
whopping
whupping
bunging up
messing up
punching out
working over
hitting
striking
assaulting
beating up
clobbering
knocking around
attacking
knocking about
doing over
pasting
smacking
whacking
punching
knocking
clouting
laying into
banging
thwacking
cudgeling
US
cudgelling
UK
beating the living daylights out of
bopping
lacing to
biffing
socking
slugging
beating up on
slapping
caning
lighting to
letting someone have it
spanking
swatting
smiting
rapping
punishing
slamming
injuring
busting
assailing
boxing
pitching into
cracking
hurting
clipping
manhandling
abusing
getting stuck into
having a go at
lamming
whomping
smashing
clocking
tearing into
sailing into
duffing up
maltreating
decking
flailing
zapping
mistreating
harming
swiping
laying one on
knocking into the middle of next week
setting upon
setting about
flagellating
welting
clapping
bonking
nailing
bobbing
boffing
tagging
raining blows on
giving someone a hiding
brutalizing
US
crushing
leathering
strapping
trouncing
larruping
larrupping
bruising
tonking
plugging
brutalising
UK
giving someone a good hiding
letting fly at
pouncing on
setting on
bullying
mishandling
scourging
damaging
cuffing
persecuting
pulverizing
US
quilting
mugging
ramming
chastising
jumping
pulverising
UK
giving someone a beating
lashing out at
treating badly
messing over
falling upon
handling roughly
kicking around
turning on
ill-treating
pouncing upon
defeating
misusing
breaking
wounding
slashing
horsewhipping
cowhiding
rawhiding
molesting
flaying
thudding
chinning
sloshing
donging
besieging
trashing
mashing
contusing
beating to a pulp
giving someone a drubbing
beating hollow
falling on
ill-using
treating roughly
filling in
overwhelming
routing
wronging
slaughtering
annihilating
besting
rushing
creaming
burying
marmalizing
charging
victimizing
US
massacring
flattening
smoking
demolishing
destroying
worsting
murdering
bumping
aggressing
swinging
impacting
waxing
incapacitating
disabling
rolling
shellacking
crucifying
tanking
smothering
forging
drawing
drumming
roughhousing
tapping
bombing
skunking
owning
dusting
torturing
assaulting physically
killing
chastening
winning a resounding victory over
walking all over
striking down
hitting hard
blowing away
bashing up
descending on
totalling
descending upon
banging up
defeating utterly
turning inside out
striking at
dinging
jumping on
running rings around
aiming blows at
taking to the cleaners
weighing into
victimising
UK
wiping the floor with
sticking one on
walking over
doing up
blowing out of the water
bringing someone to their knees
getting the better of
beating someone's brains out
totaling
shaking up
triumphing over
blowing out
making mincemeat of
going for
snowing under
knocking someone's lights out
taking a stick to
cutting up
kicking
pulping
malleating
blistering
paddlewhacking
handling
neglecting
shaking
jerking
whisking
lacerating
coshing
mutilating
bombarding
hitting repeatedly
tanning one's hide
dusting someone's britches
warming someone's seat
driving
wearing out
lobbing
fustigating
invading
feruling
fluttering
flapping
flopping
striking with a stick
blackjacking
beating with a stick
thumping on
knocking on
bearing down
giving black eye
jumping down one's throat
hauling off on
physically attacking
slapping around
coming down on
breaking face
putting in the hospital
taking care of
leaning on
battling
firing at
getting at
rounding on
misemploying
knocking for a loop
knocking cold
knocking block off
prostituting
beating someone up
kicking in
outraging
whamming
crashing
colliding
impinging
clumping
jabbing
conking
crowning
popping
laying a finger on
flooring
impelling
boxing someone's ears
dotting
zonking
thrusting
besetting
giving someone a good drubbing
giving someone a good beating
raining blows upon
siccing
blitzing
oppressing
grazing
wading into
running at
launching at
springing on
launching an attack on
rushing upon
having at
rushing at
going in on
springing at
flying at
going after
launching oneself at
hitting out at
making an assault on
scarring
knocking the living daylights out of
putting someone's lights out
scraping
scratching
marring
harassing
giving someone the works
skinning
giving someone what for
giving it to someone
giving a going over
giving a lesson to
skinning alive
ruining
interfering with
gashing
maiming
winging
storming
ambushing
blowing
skelping
chopping
hooking
clunking
butting
clonking
stomping
poking
clomping
crashing into
patting
stabbing
whumping
blasting
sucker-punching
catching
swinging at
shoving
lashing out
pushing
bunting
jogging
prodding
dashing
jarring
propelling
twacking
slamming into
running into
smashing into
colliding with
knocking into
striking out at
dashing against
ploughing into
thundering
hacking
stroking
filliping
socking it to
flumping
stamping
plunking
chipping
impairing
bamming
bushwhacking
scudding
blipping
duking
hitting out
giving someone a hot bottom
putting over one's knee
planting one
taking out
plumping
picking
striping
clinking
contacting
sinking
landing a punch
plunging
busting up
elbowing
sending
bumping into
connecting with
screwing
digging
headbutting
tupping
bucking
running
head-butting
caroming
plodding
horning
clattering
jostling
sticking
jackhammering
cracking against
banging into
knocking against
cracking into
crashing against
sideswiping
trimming
clopping
driving into
cannoning into
smacking into
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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
queering
tweaking
dinging
staining
sullying
polluting
mangling
warping
maiming
reducing
blotting
totalling
totaling
upsetting
bruising
threatening
scratching
bending
devaluing
lessening
prejudicing
detracting
blunting
cheapening
invalidating
decreasing
worsening
devaluating
unfitting
disqualifying
putting a damper on
putting the kibosh on
making useless
losing strength
scotching
scuppering
dashing
stymieing
doing for
making a mess of
thwarting
preventing
foiling
frustrating
devastating
undoing
banjaxing
obstructing
blowing a hole in
bringing to naught
defeating
checking
blocking
cruelling
stopping
baffling
hampering
derailing
baulking
UK
circumventing
balking
US
cramping
nixing
putting a stop to
putting paid to
countering
euchring
crimping
checkmating
outwitting
demolishing
curbing
forestalling
restraining
upsetting the applecart
despoiling
dishing
discomfiting
snookering
disappointing
doing in
putting the mockers on
defiling
beating
blowing
nobbling
crossing
standing in the way of
putting the lid on
throwing a spanner in the works
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
playing havoc with
putting the stopper on
scarring
desecrating
desolating
halting
opposing
trammelling
trammeling
mutilating
quashing
neutralizing
US
decimating
ballsing up
nullifying
bilking
poisoning
rooting
snafuing
giving the slip
taking wind out of
putting an end to
holding up
cooking someone's goose
making a hash of
bringing down
nipping in the bud
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
neutralising
UK
squashing
disfeaturing
barring
ending
quelling
razing
overturning
overthrowing
ruinating
wracking
pulverizing
US
nuking
botching
mullering
traversing
negating
playing off
reducing to nothing
rendering ineffective
bringing to an end
bringing to ruin
laying in ruins
pulverising
UK
cancelling out
taking down
canceling out
pillaging
plundering
sacking
denting
depredating
spoliating
taking apart
confusing
decaying
glitching up
stultifying
taking the wind out of your sails
shipwrecking
messing
laying waste to
inhibiting
fettering
distorting
wrenching
twisting
hamstringing
hobbling
contravening
scuttling
obviating
debarring
stifling
arresting
laming
repressing
repelling
suppressing
confounding
deterring
overcoming
precluding
repulsing
parrying
rattling
prohibiting
counterplotting
beating down
blanking
getting the better of
taking wind out of sails
putting end to
burying
causing setback
stumping
making of no use or value
deforming
licking
forbidding
hanging up
putting a brake on
giving the run around
cramping one's style
dashing one's hope
vaporizing
US
handicapping
wasting
sinking
flattening
busting
torpefying
creaming
overwhelming
ravishing
dilapidating
knackering
levelling
UK
extinguishing
leveling
US
bodging
scourging
scathing
toppling
cleaning out
leaving in ruins
wiping out
bringing to nothing
wreaking havoc upon
vaporising
UK
laying waste
rubbing out
reducing to rubble
pulling down
tearing down
leaving desolate
knocking down
depleting
disarming
dislimbing
waxing
piquing
fouling
paining
making lame
hacking up
drawing blood
obliterating
squelching
eradicating
unbuilding
skinning
crazing
working against
raining on someone's parade
putting at risk
halting in its tracks
throwing monkey wrench in
throwing a monkey wrench in the works
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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
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