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beats up

vb. (en-third-person singularbeat up)

Usage examples of "beats up".

The same line of bullets makes a sudden upwards right-angle turn when it reaches the wall of the General's house, climbs straight up the wall, tears out a chunk of the balcony's railing about a foot away from where the General's hand is resting, beats up a bunch of furniture back inside the house, and then clears the roof of the house and vanishes.

Like he beats up on her, so she goes to Lovejoy, tells him something important will help him out, just about the time he’.

Cocktails's method of investigation is classically simple: he beats up everybody he meets until they confess or reveal something that gives him a lead.

You want to buy something that's fun to shoot, not something that beats up on your hand and wrist.

I did not hear a great deal of it, for always, when anything happens of any moment, my heart beats up in my ears, but the distinguished Carolinians who crowded round told me how good a speech he made.