"rough up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: roughs up [present, singular, third-person], roughing up [participle, present], roughed up [participle, past], roughed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rough up (third-person singular simple present roughs up, present participle roughing up, simple past and past participle roughed up)
  1. to manhandle or beat up Categories (topical): Violence Derived forms: rough up the bullpen Translations (to manhandle or beat up): pahoinpidellä (Finnish), murjoa (Finnish), malmener (French), brutaliser (French), derbe malträtieren (German), übel zurichten (German), zusammenschlagen (German), verprügeln (German), tunuhuruhuru (Maori)
    Sense id: en-rough_up-en-verb-yNPfhwt5 Disambiguation of Violence: 94 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 85 15 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 92 8 Disambiguation of 'to manhandle or beat up': 99 1
  2. To make rough, to roughen (especially doing so to wood while raising the grain)
    Sense id: en-rough_up-en-verb-nOEkErjO

Inflected forms

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