Beating

Quick meaning: Beating is a noun meaning The action by which someone or something is beaten.

Meaning

The action by which someone or something is beaten.

More Meanings

1. A heavy defeat or setback.
2. The pulsation of the heart.
3. present participle and gerund of beat

Example Sentences

the beating of a drum

secret beatings of prisoners

Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.

[…] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]

Word Forms

• beatings

Synonyms for beating

Depending on context, synonyms include battering, beatdown, boom-boom, clobbering, dressing-down, drubbing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drubbing, thrashing, whipping, whacking, pulsating, pulsing.

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