to bang up
8
7.6
- phrasal verb
- /bæŋ ʌp/
- Informal
:
dañar
- The paddy wagon emerges from the murky water, revealing the open, banged-up back door with several large fist prints in it.
- pretty banged up
- get banged up
- banged up car
Like you and I, she was in sales, she banged up phones, she had quotas.
- Like you and I, she was in sales, she banged up phones, she had quotas.
- My fucking just takes an accident and you're banged up, right?
- I didn't deliver on that and I can't make yes, I was banged up and beat up, but I was there.
- But you can't say when you're banged up or when you're ODD, right?
- But the way we handled it is we had contractors that were banged up and what do we do?
- I didn't go to Reggie's because I was banged up, because I went to Joe's and Roy Shaw's.
Examples
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The kids banged up the old bicycle while racing down the hill.
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Police are looking for a banged-up white SUV that allegedly hit and seriously injured a Boston woman on Commonwealth Ave.
Blog text (25) -
I mean, that car's a little banged up.
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"Your face was all banged up."
Fiction book (1993) -
My head had banged up against the metal side of the interior of the car.
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Rolling end over end, the Attacker is banged up badly as it finally comes to a stop.
Fiction book (1996) -
They were rough as the roads they traveled and pretty well banged up.
Fiction book (1993) -
Didn't want to get your Ferrari banged up in the traffic.
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Any fool could see that when an ax handle gets all banged up, it loosens so that splitting large pieces of wood becomes a dangerous proposition.
Fiction book (1996) -
After the accident, his car was completely banged up and needed extensive repairs.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To strike someone or something with force
553
4.0
To break something so it does not work
534
2.7
To cause something to explode violently
481
2.2
To hit something with great force and cause damage
401
1.6
To press something hard so it breaks or loses its shape
311
2.1
To break something into many pieces using great force
250
5.5
To hit someone or something hard so it makes a loud sound
225
2.9
To badly damage or destroy something
73
6.6
To damage a place or thing very badly
64
3.8
To break or remove something by force, often by hitting it
57
3.2
To hit something or someone hard and repeatedly
57
3.2
Make a building or wall fall down suddenly
48
4.6
Cause deep pain to someone's feelings and destroy their hopes
34
5.8
To break something into pieces by hitting it hard
13
7.5
Hit something hard so it breaks or opens
11
4.1
To completely destroy something, often hopes or plans
8
7.3
To attack a place by throwing a bomb that starts fires
7
1.8
To break something violently into pieces
5
4.7
To damage something very badly so it breaks into pieces
1
9.9
To cause a lot of damage and chaos to a place or thing
1
9.1
To break something into pieces
1
8.6
To hit someone or something very hard and damage it
1
6.3
To hit something hard so it moves or gets damaged
To divide something into parts, for example by cutting it or by sharing it among people
Causing sudden harm or damage
Make something stop working by hitting or dropping it
Antonyms
How Damaged
∞
1.0
- Informal
8
7.6
885
1.4
27
2.2
161
1.1
12
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to damage' is partly derivable from 'bang' (to strike) together with the particle 'up', which commonly marks intensive or resultative action in phrasal verbs; a learner who knows these uses can infer that repeatedly or forcefully banging something will harm it. However, the exact sense 'damage/destroy' relies on knowing the particle function in phrasal verbs rather than a straightforward compositional reading, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Bang up comes from the verb bang, meaning to hit hard, with up making the action more complete or severe; imagine dropping or striking a bike until it is dented or broken. So it means 'to damage or destroy' something.