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roughed up

verb as in handle harshly

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While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.

He was tired of being triple-teamed and physically roughed up.

A group of streetwalkers had been complaining of being roughed up in the streets, and Teixeira decided to investigate.

Ford and the student he allegedly roughed up both deny the claim.

He says he and his 78-year-old father were roughed up and robbed in a bad neighborhood near El Morro that night.

The overlapping edges must be well roughed up with a knife to make sure that the paste will stick.

When Dave and the others got back to the house they were considerably roughed up, as Roger expressed it.

The surface should not be roughed up or cut up into "shoulders."

I need it, for my job is to nurse back to health and kid back to sanity Soldiers badly roughed up in the biggest war going.

The wolfish dog, which had growled softly all this time and roughed up the hair of its neck, now slunk forward on its belly.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rough up, such as: beat up, maltreat, manhandle, mistreat, abuse, and bash.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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