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bash up

bash up verb: to assault someone with the intention of causing physical injury; to beat up.

Verb

bash up (third-person singular simple present bashes up, present participle bashing up, simple past and past participle bashed up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To assault someone with the intention of causing physical injury; to beat up.
    • He shouted at us, so we bashed him up.

Forms of bash up

third-person singular presentbashes up
present participlebashing up
past participlebashed up
pastbashed up

Questions about bash up

What does bash up mean?
Bash up means to assault someone with the intention of causing physical injury; to beat up.
What part of speech is bash up?
Bash up is a verb.
What is the past tense of bash up?
The past tense of bash up is bashed up.

Words near bash up in the dictionary

  1. bash out
  2. bash someone's face in
  3. bash someone's head
  4. bash the bishop
  5. bash together
  6. bash up
  7. basha
  8. Bashaar
  9. bashable
  10. Basham
  11. Bashams

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