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rough up en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. To manhandle or beat up.
    • The gangsters roughed him up a little.
  2. To make rough, to roughen (especially doing so to wood while raising the grain).
  3. (historical) To rub the loam that covers the brick wall of a mould to make it adhere firmly.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
roughing up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
roughs up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
roughed up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
roughed up Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

rough up the bullpen

Translations (15)

ru избить (to manhandle or beat up) · de übel zurichten (to manhandle or beat up) · de derbe malträtieren (to manhandle or beat up) · pl maltretować (to manhandle or beat up) · de zusammenschlagen (to manhandle or beat up) · fi pahoinpidellä (to manhandle or beat up) · fr brutaliser (to manhandle or beat up) · pl zmaltretować (to manhandle or beat up) · fr malmener (to manhandle or beat up) · pl poniewierać (to manhandle or beat up) · mi tunuhuruhuru (to manhandle or beat up) · pl sponiewierać (to manhandle or beat up) · fi murjoa (to manhandle or beat up) · ru побить (to manhandle or beat up) · de verprügeln (to manhandle or beat up)