The difference between Beat up and Hazing
When used as nouns, beat up means a person who, or thing that, has been beaten up, whereas hazing means an initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.
Beat up is also verb with the meaning: to give a severe beating to.
Beat up is also adjective with the meaning: battered by time and usage.
check bellow for the other definitions of Beat up and Hazing
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Beat up as a verb (transitive):
To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
Examples:
"I got beaten up by thugs on my way home."
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Beat up as a verb (obsolete):
To attack suddenly; to alarm.
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Beat up as a verb:
To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
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Beat up as a verb (reflexive):
To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. Usually followed by over or about.
Examples:
"Don't beat yourself up over such a minor mistake."
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Beat up as a verb (military, WW2 air pilots' usage):
Repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
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Beat up as a verb:
To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game
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Beat up as a verb (intransitive, nautical):
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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Beat up as a verb (intransitive, dated):
To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
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Beat up as a verb (intransitive, dated):
To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise.
Examples:
"to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers"
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Beat up as an adjective (slang):
Battered by time and usage; beaten up.
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Beat up as a noun:
A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
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Beat up as a noun (UK, military slang):
An act of beating up: A raid. A beating; a hazing.
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Beat up as a noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand):
An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
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Beat up as a noun (forestry):
A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
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Hazing as a noun (US):
An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.
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Hazing as a verb: