Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

roughing up

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English

Syllables
rough-ing up
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of rough up

Questions

What does roughing up mean?
present participle and gerund of rough up

How to pronounce roughing up

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