beat to a pulp
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[edit]beat to a pulp (third-person singular simple present beats to a pulp, present participle beating to a pulp, simple past beat to a pulp, past participle beaten to a pulp or beat to a pulp)
- (transitive) To beat up (a person) more than usually severely.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 251:
- Neanderthals were extremely tough—this is attested to by the thickness of their bones—and were probably capable of beating modern humans to a pulp.
- (transitive, colloquial, loosely) To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports.
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[edit]- pulp (verb)
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[edit]beat up
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defeat severely
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