to beat to a pulp
17
7.6
- idiom
- Offensive
- After the fight, he looked like he had been beaten to a pulp.
- beat them to a bloody pulp
- guy was beaten to a pulp
- just beat you to a pulp
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, I would want to beat myself to a pulp and I would scream at myself.
- I mean, I would want to beat myself to a pulp and I would scream at myself.
- I mean, he would have beaten me to a pulp.
- He was stamping on their heads, fucking them up like, like beating them to a pulp.
Examples
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They'll beat him to a pulp.
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He beat him to a pulp.
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The man just beat me to a pulp.
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Let them beat each other to a pulp.
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I beat him to a pulp.
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Yes, you can use weapons on them, but you can beat them to a pulp instead.
Blog text (20) -
After that, they continue to beat each other to a pulp.
Blog text (10) -
"When I get hold of you, I'll beat you to a pulp."
Fiction book (1995) -
Beat him to a pulp.
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They'll beat us to a pulp.
Synonyms
451
4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
412
9.0
To beat or punish someone very badly
209
4.7
To attack someone physically or try to hurt them
54
9.9
To hurt or defeat someone very badly, often by hitting them
46
6.7
Hit something many times, usually with your fists
34
7.5
Hit something hard so it breaks or opens
33
8.8
To hit someone repeatedly with a heavy stick or club
32
7.7
To hit someone or something very hard many times
13
6.5
Hit someone hard, often as punishment or in a fight
5
9.8
Hit someone in the face very hard to hurt them
5
3.2
To hit something or someone hard and repeatedly
5
9.8
Hit someone very hard so they are knocked out
4
9.4
To work very hard or to threaten to hit someone
4
8.8
Hit a person's head very hard and cause serious injury
3
8.8
Hit someone hard as a punishment
3
7.7
Win easily by a lot against another person or team
2
9.5
To hit someone repeatedly and very hard
2
9.9
To hit someone's face very hard to hurt them
2
8.6
To hit someone or something very hard and damage it
1
9.0
Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt
1
9.9
To hit someone very hard or to shock someone very much
1
9.6
Hit someone many times so they become badly hurt
1
8.4
To beat someone with a whip or stick as punishment
To beat the soles of someone's feet as a form of punishment
Antonyms
How Violent
- Offensive
17
7.6
- Offensive
1
9.0
- Offensive
451
4.1
46
6.7
570
1.4
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'beat' (to hit) + 'pulp' (a soft, mashed mass) gives the resultative sense 'beat until reduced to a pulp' i.e. injure or defeat severely. This resultative construction (beat X to Y) is a standard, compositional pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
The idiom beat to a pulp comes from the image of beating something until it becomes pulp, the soft, mashed part of fruit or wood. So, saying someone was beaten to a pulp means they were 'hurt very badly' or 'defeated completely'.