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beating up on
Synonyms and Antonyms of beating up on
- A brawl broke out and the players all started beating up on each other.
bum-rushing, ganging up (on), mobbing, swarming
ambuscading, ambushing, surprising (also surprizing), waylaying
blitzing, bombarding, bombing, nuking
barraging, cannonading, cannoning
banging away (at), battering, buffeting, plastering
beleaguering, besieging, pressing
harrying, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking
- She beat up on me in front of everyone for arriving late.
berating, haranguing, harassing, harrying, reviling, scolding, whipping
blaspheming, cursing, execrating, imprecating, profaning
affronting, insulting, slurring
aspersing, bad-mouthing, belittling, blackguarding, disparaging, putting down
libeling (or libelling), slandering, traducing, vilifying
chastising, chiding, criticizing, lacing (into), rebuking, reprimanding
- They beat up on the piñata until it finally broke open.
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, drubbing, fibbing [British], flogging, hammering, hiding, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, thrashing, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling (or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whomping
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
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