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rough up
| Main Entry: |
rough up
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | handle harshly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bash, batter, beat up, hit, knock about, knock around, maltreat, manhandle, mishandle, mistreat, roughen, roughhouse, slap around, thrash |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, protect |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause physical pain; experience pain |
| Synonyms: | abuse, ache, afflict, ail, be sore, be tender, belt, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, cramp, cut, cut up, damage, disable, do violence, flail, flog, harm, impair, injure, kick, lacerate, lash, maltreat, mar, maul, mess up, nip, pierce, pinch, pommel, prick, pummel, punch, puncture, punish, rough up, shake up, slap, slug, smart, spank, spoil, squeeze, stab, sting, tear, throb, torment, torture, total, trouble, wax, whack, whip, wing, wound, wrack up, wring |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, cure, heal, help, relieve, remedy, soothe |
| Main Entry: | impair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harm, hinder |
| Synonyms: | blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate, decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, ding, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, lose strength, make useless, mar, prejudice, queer, reduce, rough up, spoil, tarnish, total, tweak, undermine, unfit, vitiate, weaken, worsen |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
| Main Entry: | mar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, damage |
| Synonyms: | bend, blemish, blight, blot, break, bruise, deface, deform, detract, ding, disfigure, foul up, harm, impair, injure, louse up, maim, mangle, mess up*, mutilate, queer*, rough up, ruin, scar, scratch, shake up, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, tweak, vitiate, warp, wreck |
| Antonyms: | aid, heal, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mangle, abuse |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, bludgeon, break face, buffet, claw, clean, drub, flagellate, flail, handle roughly, hit, hurt, ill-treat, knock about, knock around, lacerate, lash, lean on, let have it, maltreat, molest, mug, muscle, paste, paw, pelt, pound, pummel, put in the hospital, rough up, skin, take care of, thrash, trample, wax, whip, work over |
| Antonyms: | guard, maintain, protect, take care |
| Main Entry: | mistreat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | treat badly or wrongly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, backbite, bash, brutalize, bung up, chop, do wrong, dump on, give black eye, handle roughly, harm, injure, kick around, knock around, maltreat, maul, mess up, misuse, molest, outrage, push around, rip, rough up, roughhouse, shake up, total*, trash*, wax, wound, wrong |
| Antonyms: | coddle, favor, pamper, pet, please, satisfy, treat well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | punish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | penalize for wrongdoing |
| Synonyms: | abuse, attend to, batter, beat, beat up, blacklist, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, crack down on, cuff, debar, defrock, discipline, dismiss, do in, execute, exile, expel, fine, flog, give a going over, give the works, harm, hurt, immure, incarcerate, injure, knock about, lash, lecture, maltreat, misuse, oppress, paddle, rap knuckles, reprove, rough up, scourge, sentence, slap wrist, spank, switch, teach a lesson, throw the book at, train, whip |
| Antonyms: | award, exonerate, let go, praise, protect, reward |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause bodily damage |
| Synonyms: | bruise, carve, clip, contuse, cut, damage, ding, gash, harm, hit, hurt, injure, irritate, lacerate, nick, open up, ouch, pierce, rough up, scrape, scratch, slash, slice, stick, total* |
| Antonyms: | aid, cure, heal, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manhandle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push |
| Synonyms: | abuse, batter, beat, bung up, damage, handle, knock about, maltreat, mangle, maul, mistreat, paw, pull, push, rough up, roughhouse, slap around |
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