• v.
    ⦿give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
    lexical concept
  • The teacher used to beat the students
  • Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:beat
  2. enl:beat up
  3. enl:work over
wn:interlingual indexili:i28707

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • beatbeat upwork over
  • work over