Synonyms of roughing (up)

roughing (up)

verb

present participle of rough (up)

1

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

she was badly roughed up by her boxing partner

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in abusing

to abuse physically

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abusing
• attacking
• manhandling
• mauling
• mishandling
• ambushing
• torturing
• beating
• maltreating
• injuring
• hurting
• ganging up (on)
• wounding
• slapping
• battering
• licking
• wrestling
• ill-using
• harming
• fighting
• mistreating
• misusing
• pummeling
• persecuting
• pounding
• buffeting
• knocking
• pommelling
• roughhousing
• wronging
• bashing
• drubbing
• thrashing
• hitting
• pummelling
• oppressing
• pommeling
• lambasting
• jumping
• ill-treating
• assailing
• tormenting
• clobbering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• caressing
• petting
• fondling
• caring (for)
• pampering
• coddling
• fostering
• nurturing
• mollycoddling