Usually means: Damage through excessive physical use.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. beat-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beat-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beat-up, beat-up, beat up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beat-up, beat up: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beat-Up, Beat-up, beat-up: Wordnik
  7. beat-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beat-up, beat up: Wiktionary
  9. beat-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beat-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beat-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. beat-up, beat up: Dictionary.com
  13. beat-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Beat Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. beat-up, beat up: Rhymezone
  16. beat up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. beat-up, beat up: FreeDictionary.org
  18. beat-up, beat up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. beat-up, beat up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. beat up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Beat-up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (beat up)

verb:  (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
verb:  (obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.
verb:  To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
verb:  (reflexive) To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
verb:  (military, WW2 air pilots' usage) To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
verb:  To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
adjective:  (slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
noun:  A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
noun:  An act of beating up:
noun:  (UK, military slang) A raid.
noun:  A beating; a hazing.
noun:  (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
noun:  (forestry) A tree planted later than others in a plantation.

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