beat up

tabasser, rouer de coups

Faire très mal à quelqu'un en le frappant à plusieurs reprises.

En anglais simple : To hurt someone badly by hitting them many times.

• They beat up my brother.
• He was beaten up outside a club.
• Why did those boys beat him up?

Comment l'utiliser : beat someone up (Two men beat him up outside the station.); be beaten up (She was beaten up on her way home.)

Synonymes : beat, assault, batter

Expressions courantes : beat up someone, beat up badly, beat up a stranger

se culpabiliser, se faire des reproches

Continuer à se reprocher ce qu'on a fait et à en souffrir.

En anglais simple : To keep blaming yourself and feeling bad about something you did.

• Do not beat yourself up.
• I beat myself up over that mistake.
• He keeps beating himself up for losing the keys.

Comment l'utiliser : beat yourself up over something (Do not beat yourself up over one bad grade.); beat yourself up for doing something (She beat herself up for forgetting his birthday.)

Synonymes : blame yourself, reproach yourself

Expressions courantes : beat yourself up, beat myself up

accabler de reproches, culpabiliser

Critiquer durement quelqu'un et lui faire éprouver de la culpabilité.

En anglais simple : To criticize someone harshly and make them feel guilty about something.

• Stop beating him up over this.
• They beat her up for missing the deadline.
• The boss keeps beating us up about our results.

Comment l'utiliser : beat someone up over something (The manager beat her up over a small mistake.); beat someone up for doing something (Do not beat him up for being late once.)

Synonymes : criticize, blame, berate

Expressions courantes : beat up someone, beat someone up over

abîmer, meurtrir

Causer des blessures ou des bleus à quelqu'un par un accident, une activité éprouvante ou une autre cause.

En anglais simple : To leave someone hurt or bruised through an accident, difficult activity, or other cause.

• That fall beat me up badly.
• The crash beat him up, but he survived.
• Three days on rocky trails really beat up my knees.

Comment l'utiliser : beat someone up (That rough hike really beat me up.)

Synonymes : injure, batter

Expressions courantes : beat up someone, beat up your body

se lever avant, se réveiller avant

Se réveiller ou se lever avant une autre personne.

En anglais simple : To wake or get out of bed before someone else does.

• I beat you up this morning.
• She beat me up and made breakfast.
• Can you beat me up tomorrow and start the coffee?

Comment l'utiliser : beat someone up (I beat my brother up this morning and made the coffee first.)

Synonymes : wake before, get up before

Expressions courantes : beat someone up, beat someone up today

organiser, rassembler

Réussir à organiser ou à réunir quelque chose grâce à ses efforts.

En anglais simple : To manage to arrange or obtain something through effort.

• We must beat up some support.
• They beat up volunteers for the search.
• She beat up a small party to help with the work.

Comment l'utiliser : beat up something (They beat up support for the expedition.)

Synonymes : arrange, organize, muster

Expressions courantes : beat up support, beat up recruits, beat up volunteers

abîmé, usé

Vieux ou abîmé à force d'avoir beaucoup servi.

En anglais simple : Old or damaged because it has been used a lot.

• His car is really beat up.
• She wore a beat-up leather jacket.
• These chairs look more beat up every year.

Synonymes : battered, worn, shabby

Contraires : new

Expressions courantes : beat up car, beat up shoes, beat up furniture

polémique montée de toutes pièces, emballement médiatique

Histoire ou protestation publique présentée comme bien plus grave que ne le justifient les faits.

En anglais simple : A story or public complaint made to seem much more serious than the facts support.

• That story is a beat-up.
• The minister dismissed the headlines as a media beat-up.
• Was the whole scandal just a political beat-up?

Synonymes : manufactured controversy, media hype

Expressions courantes : media beat up, a beat up, political beat up