Synonyms of roughed (up)

roughed (up)

verb

past tense of rough (up)

1

as in licked

to strike repeatedly

she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licked
• pounded
• lashed
• whipped
• messed (up)
• beat
• slapped
• knocked
• pelted
• punched out
• did
• attacked
• battered
• hit
• spanked
• punched
• hided
• slammed
• worked over
• assaulted
• smashed
• thumped
• chopped
• batted
• mauled
• pummeled
• buffeted
• pummelled
• bashed
• smacked
• slated
• hammered
• pommelled
• bunged up
• bludgeoned
• belabored
• tanned
• paddled
• lathered
• whacked
• boxed
• clubbed
• threshed
• curried
• whupped
• thrashed
• jumped (on)
• switched
• laced
• pommeled
• raided
• beat up on
• fibbed
• flogged
• wounded
• lambasted
• basted
• swiped
• descended (on or upon)
• whapped
• laid on
• belted
• walloped
• tromped
• slogged
• whopped
• stormed
• pounced (on or upon)
• birched
• cracked
• drubbed
• whaled
• rushed
• pasted
• cudgeled
• strapped
• swatted
• beset
• assailed
• cuffed
• socked
• clobbered
• lammed
• fustigated
• busted
• cudgelled
• scourged
• bust
• clouted
• whammed
• blackjacked
• flagellated
• thwacked
• caned
• cowhided
• lacerated
• rawhided
• whomped
• horsewhipped
• mutilated
• gored
• maimed
• mangled
• leathered
• pistol-whipped

2

as in abused

to abuse physically

the photographer claimed that he had been roughed up by the actor's bodyguards outside the club

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abused
• attacked
• manhandled
• ambushed
• tortured
• mauled
• mishandled
• hurt
• beat
• maltreated
• injured
• wounded
• slapped
• battered
• misused
• licked
• mistreated
• harmed
• roughhoused
• persecuted
• wronged
• pummeled
• buffeted
• knocked
• wrestled
• pommelled
• fought
• oppressed
• ganged up (on)
• pounded
• pommeled
• ill-used
• hit
• thrashed
• ill-treated
• pummelled
• bashed
• assailed
• lambasted
• jumped
• tormented
• clobbered
• drubbed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• caressed
• petted
• fondled
• cared (for)
• pampered
• coddled
• fostered
• nurtured
• mollycoddled