"dust up" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "dusts up",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dusting up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dusted up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dusted up",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To cover with dust."
      ],
      "id": "en-dust_up-en-verb-e24IGKb9",
      "links": [
        [
          "cover",
          "cover"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cover with dust."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Johannes Werner, Knight of Germany: Oswald Boelcke German Ace, page 194",
          "text": "I promptly put my machine behind him and was about to dust him up a bit when another Fokker came to my help and got in first. He dived on the Caudron, who bolted at once. The Nieuport saw him and came to help his comrade in distress.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attack (a person) physically; to beat up."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "beat up",
          "beat up"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, slang) To attack (a person) physically; to beat up."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to attack",
          "word": "angreifen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dust up"
}

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    {
      "form": "dusts up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dusting up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dusted up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dusted up",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cover with dust."
      ],
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        [
          "cover",
          "cover"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cover with dust."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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          "text": "I promptly put my machine behind him and was about to dust him up a bit when another Fokker came to my help and got in first. He dived on the Caudron, who bolted at once. The Nieuport saw him and came to help his comrade in distress.",
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      ],
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        "To attack (a person) physically; to beat up."
      ],
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        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
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          "beat up",
          "beat up"
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        "(transitive, slang) To attack (a person) physically; to beat up."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to attack",
      "word": "angreifen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dust up"
}