Synonyms of beating up on

beating up on

phrase

present participle of beat up on

1

as in attacking

to take sudden, violent action against

A brawl broke out and the players all started beating up on each other.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attacking
• raiding
• assaulting
• turning (on)
• descending (on or upon)
• flying at
• setting on
• setting at
• jumping (on)
• storming
• going in (on)
• rounding on
• setting upon
• going at
• pouncing (on or upon)
• tearing into
• striking
• pitching into
• lighting into
• robbing
• charging
• ambushing
• ganging up (on)
• rushing
• invading
• bushwhacking
• swarming
• assailing
• besetting
• sicking
• trashing
• banging away (at)
• surprising
• siccing
• flanking
• sacking
• bombing
• mobbing
• surprizing
• besieging
• mugging
• ambuscading
• blitzing
• waylaying
• bombarding
• nuking
• ravaging
• looting
• battering
• plundering
• cannonading
• buffeting
• bum-rushing
• plastering
• barraging
• pillaging
• cannoning
• beleaguering
• enveloping
• harrying
• pressing
• overrunning
• foraying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protecting
• covering
• defending
• securing
• guarding
• shielding

2

as in jumping (on)

to criticize harshly and usually publicly

She beat up on me in front of everyone for arriving late.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attacking
• jumping (on)
• slamming
• tying into
• sailing into
• scolding
• lighting into
• abusing
• insulting
• criticizing
• blasting
• scathing
• vituperating
• potshotting
• savaging
• assailing
• bashing
• excoriating
• cursing
• castigating
• belaboring
• lambasting
• harassing
• trashing
• lashing (out)
• lacing (into)
• berating
• reviling
• blaspheming
• reprimanding
• putting down
• imprecating
• haranguing
• harrying
• whipping
• affronting
• disparaging
• aspersing
• execrating
• blackguarding
• belittling
• libelling
• slurring
• slandering
• profaning
• vilifying
• chiding
• libeling
• fulminating
• chastising
• traducing
• rebuking
• bad-mouthing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• praising
• commending
• complimenting
• hailing
• lauding
• acclaiming

3

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

They beat up on the piñata until it finally broke open.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licking
• pounding
• hiding
• lashing
• working over
• punching out
• whipping
• doing
• beating
• attacking
• hitting
• pelting
• knocking
• roughing (up)
• battering
• messing (up)
• slapping
• punching
• spanking
• batting
• bunging up
• thumping
• smashing
• assaulting
• slamming
• descending (on or upon)
• mauling
• chopping
• bashing
• raiding
• jumping (on)
• pommelling
• paddling
• pommeling
• laying on
• pummeling
• switching
• pummelling
• boxing
• tanning
• whopping
• hammering
• clubbing
• buffeting
• slating
• pouncing (on or upon)
• currying
• drubbing
• thrashing
• threshing
• lathering
• basting
• smacking
• flogging
• whaling
• bludgeoning
• storming
• lacing
• fibbing
• belting
• lambasting
• belaboring
• birching
• wounding
• whacking
• whapping
• slogging
• walloping
• swiping
• whupping
• tromping
• cracking
• rushing
• pasting
• lamming
• swatting
• strapping
• cudgelling
• assailing
• thwacking
• besetting
• cuffing
• cudgeling
• clobbering
• socking
• busting
• cowhiding
• blackjacking
• caning
• rawhiding
• fustigating
• scourging
• whamming
• flagellating
• clouting
• lacerating
• whomping
• goring
• maiming
• mutilating
• leathering
• pistol-whipping
• horsewhipping
• mangling