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vb. (en-pastrough up)
Usage examples of "roughed up".
If they had roughed up Bonforte so that it showed, then he could not appear in public in that shape-at least not only fifteen minutes after being adopted into the Kkkah nest.
The emergency tapes kept his mind off the grinding traffic, and he listened to them all the way to Toad Island, the morning after he'd roughed up Palmer Stoat.
Wed best see whats happened elsewhere, one of the boys suggested, so Amos Turlock loaded a truck with ropes, crowbars, shovels and field glasses and led an expedition to Cavenys home, which had been roughed up but not destroyed.
Ditto the German government, because the Cardinal's aide is a German monsignor named Schepke, who's a Jesuit, and he got a little roughed up, and the Germans aren't very happy either.
Had they been outlanders or Knights, the traders would have fared hard, but the man and his two sons were elves, and so Jeratts outlaws left them roughed up and bruised, one a little cut, and all angry.