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Definition of rough up phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

rough up

phrasal verb

phrasal verb

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Phrasal Verbs

rough somebodyup

(informal)

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to hurt someone by hitting or kicking them He claimed that guards had roughed him up in prison.

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