to beat someone's ass
1
9.9
- phrasal verb
- /biːt ˈsʌmˌwʌnz æs/
- Offensive
:
dar una paliza a
- If you keep talking smack, I swear I'll beat someone's ass in the next game.
Examples
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Get over here and untie me so I can start beating your little brother's ass again.
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- Back off Cody, we're about to beat your brother's ass up in here!
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Then I got to beat somebody's ass 'cause they put their hands on you.
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You straight boys are too funny... always wanting to beat someone's ass.
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- Word on the street is Tre gonna beat Brock's ass.
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I trained hard so I could beat my rival's ass in the final race.
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After a long rivalry, she finally managed to beat his ass in the championship match.
Synonyms
271
4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
53
9.9
To hurt or defeat someone very badly, often by hitting them
45
9.0
To beat or punish someone very badly
39
8.2
To defeat someone completely in a game or fight
36
5.5
To beat someone easily by a large amount
32
4.2
To beat someone easily in a game or contest
16
9.9
To beat someone very badly in a fight or competition
11
8.7
To beat someone by a large amount in a contest or game
8
7.5
To beat someone completely in a game or contest
8
7.7
To beat someone completely in a game or fight
6
4.5
Beat someone completely in a game or contest
3
7.7
Win easily by a lot against another person or team
1
9.0
Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt
1
9.4
To work very hard or to threaten to hit someone
1
8.6
To hit someone or something very hard and damage it
1
9.8
Hit someone in the face very hard to hurt them
1
9.9
To attack or punish someone suddenly and violently, often for something they did
1
6.7
To beat someone very easily and completely in a game or contest
1
8.8
Beat someone by a lot
Hit someone many times so they become badly hurt
To hit someone's face very hard to hurt them
Beat someone completely in a game or contest
To defeat someone completely in a contest or argument
To beat someone completely or praise them too much
Antonyms
How Decisive
- NSFW
63
7.5
386
4.7
6
4.5
- Offensive
1
9.9
∞
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'beat' (to strike/defeat) combined with a possessive and a body part ('ass') makes the general sense of violently defeating or decisively beating someone reasonably inferable from the parts, so a learner would likely grasp that it means harming or overwhelmingly defeating someone. However, the phrase is vulgar and can be used metaphorically for non-physical defeat (e.g., in competition), and that pragmatic nuance and register are not fully predictable from the constituents, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Beat someone's ass comes from a simple, strong image: to beat someone's ass is to hit someone hard until they lose. That's why it means 'to defeat someone decisively'.