beating

beating
n
1. battering, pounding, pommeling, pummeling, pelting, going over, Sl. pasting; thrash, thrashing, flogging, lashing, flagellation, whipping, spanking, Inf. tanning; smacking, slapping, Inf. whacking; cudgeling, fustigation, bludgeoning, basting, flogging, clubbing, hammering.
2. defeat, trouncing, rout, vanquishment, Sl. shellacking; conquest, subjugation, overthrow, overpowering; repulse, rebuff, thwarting; perdition, destruction, ruin, deathblow.
3. pulsation, pulsating, pulse, pulsing, palpitation, palpitating, throb, throbbing.
4.(all of water) lapping, washing, bathing, breaking, dashing.

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  • beating */ — UK [ˈbiːtɪŋ] / US [ˈbɪtɪŋ] noun [countable] Word forms beating : singular beating plural beatings 1) the act of hitting someone hard a number of times in a fight or as a punishment The man had been given a severe beating. 2) a bad defeat in a… …   English dictionary

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