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vb. (present participle of rough up English)
Usage examples of "roughing up".
I'd like to know what he'll say when he learns his men have come barging in here this way, making a disturbance, disruping my business, roughing up my customers!
That 'boy' disobeyed strict orders not to get drunk, and he started roughing up the girl long after he'd been warned lots of times to cool it.
We've had trouble with them before, roughing up a couple of the tours.
People roughing up folks as works for us, callin' em Fuzzy-lovers.
Jules, my companion of the shaved head, was called in for the pleasurable sport of roughing up the subject and dumping him--stripped of his uniform--while the count and I returned gratefully to the unfinished carafe.
The fact that I needed the vehicle urgently was not, in Cicerius's considered legal opinion, a valid defence for roughing up a fellow citizen.
How would it look if we started roughing up an ex-ambassador's wife?
They had confessed to setting the ambush with the purpose of roughing up Hafner on her cousin's instigation.