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What does beat up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word beat up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To give a severe beating to, to assault violently hitting the victim repeatedly
  2. To attack suddenly; to alarm (largely an obsolete usage).
  3. To cause by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
  4. (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. Usually followed by over or about.
  5. (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) Repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
  6. To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game
  7. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  8. To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
Adjective
  1. (slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
Noun
  1. A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
  2. An act of beating up:
    1. (Britain, military slang) A raid.
    2. A beating; a hazing.
  3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
  4. (forestry) A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
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