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rough up

vb (tr, adverb)

1. informal to treat violently; beat up

2. to cause (feathers, hair, etc) to stand up by rubbing against the grain

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Verb

rough up - treat violently; "The police strong-armed the suspect"

beat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

rough

adjective

1. Having a surface that is not smooth:

coarse, cragged, craggy, harsh, ironbound, jagged, ragged, rugged, scabrous, uneven.

2. Consisting of or covered with large particles:

coarse, grainy, granular, gritty.

3. Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms:

dirty, heavy, raging, roiled, roily, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly, violent, wild.

4. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:

arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty.

5. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort:

bitter, brutal, hard, harsh, severe.

6. Hard to deal with or get out of:

tight, tricky.

Informal: sticky.

7. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:

barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar.

8. Marked by vigorous physical exertion:

knockabout, rough-and-tumble, rugged, strenuous, tough.

9. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:

dry, grating, harsh, hoarse, jarring, rasping, raspy, raucous, scratchy, squawky, strident.

10. In a primitive state; not domesticated or cultivated; produced by nature:

native, natural, uncultivated, undomesticated, untamed, wild.

11. Not perfected, elaborated, or completed:

preliminary, sketchy, tentative, unfinished, unperfected, unpolished.

12. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship:

crude, primitive, raw, rude, unpolished.

verb

To be rough or brutal with.Also used with up:

knock about (or around), manhandle, slap around.

Slang: mess up.

phrasal verb
rough in or out

To draw up a preliminary plan or version of:

adumbrate, block in (or out), draft, outline, sketch.

phrasal verb
rough up

To injure or damage, as by abuse or heavy wear:

batter, knock about (or around), mangle, maul.

noun

A preliminary plan or version, as of a written work:

draft, outline, skeleton, sketch.

Translations

w>rough up

vt sep hair → zersausen, verstrubbeln (inf); (inf) person → zusammenschlagen

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