rough up

English

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

   The gangsters roughed him up a little.

2. To make rough, to roughen (especially doing so to wood while raising the grain)

Derived terms

• rough up the bullpen

Translations

to manhandle or beat up

• Finnish: pahoinpidellä (fi), murjoa (fi)
• French: malmener (fr), brutaliser (fr)
• German: derbe malträtieren, übel zurichten, zusammenschlagen (de), verprügeln (de)
• Maori: tunuhuruhuru