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Beating

Beating Meaning & Definition
Beating Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beating?

[n] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
[n] the act of overcoming or outdoing
[adj] expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Beating: drubbing | lacing | pulsating | pulsing | rhythmic | rhythmical | thrashing | trouncing | whacking

Related Terms | Find terms related to Beating: abrasion | alternate | arrhythmia | atomization | attrition | bang | barrage | bash | bastinado | basting | bat | battery | beat | belt | belting | biff | blow | bonk | brecciation | buffeting | cadenced | cadent | caning | chop | circling | clicking | clip | clout | clubbing | clump | collapse | comminution | conquering | conquest | corporal punishment | cowhiding | crack | crash | crumbling | crushing | cudgeling | cut | cyclic | dance | dash | deathblow | debacle | defeasance | defeat | destruction | detrition | dig | dint | disintegration | downfall | drub | drubbing | drum | drum music | drumbeat | drumfire | drumming | epochal | even | every other | failure | fall | flagellation | flailing | flap | flicker | flit | flitter | flogging | flop | flutter | fluttering | fragmentation | fusillade | fustigation | granulation | granulization | grating | grinding | heartbeat | heartthrob | hiding | hit | horsewhipping | in numbers | in rhythm | intermittent | isochronal | jab | knock | lacing | lambasting | lashing | lathering | levigation | lick | licking | mashing | mastery | measured | metric | metronomic | oscillatory | overcoming | overthrow | overturn | palpitant | palpitation | paradiddle | patter | pelt | periodical | pistol-whipping | pitapat | pitter-patter | plunk | poke | pound | pounding | powdering | pulsatile | pulsating | pulsation | pulsative | pulsatory | pulse | pulsing | punch | quietus | quiver | rap | rataplan | rat-a-tat | rat-tat | rat-tat-tat | rattattoo | rawhiding | reciprocal | recurrent | recurring | rhythm | rhythmic | roll | rotary | rout | rub-a-dub | ruff | ruffle | ruin | scourging | seasonal | serial | shake | shellacking | shredding | slam | slog | slug | smack | smash | smashing | sock | spanking | spatter | spattering | splutter | spluttering | sputter | sputtering | staccato | steady | strapping | stripes | stroke | subdual | subduing | subjugation | swat | swing | swingeing | swipe | switching | tat-tat | tattoo | tempo | thrashing | throb | throbbing | thrum | thrumming | thump | thumping | thwack | ticking | tom-tom | trimming | trituration | trouncing | truncheoning | undoing | undulant | undulatory | vanquishment | Waterloo | wavelike | waver | whack | wheeling | whipping | whop | yerk

See Also | combat | corporal punishment | fight | fighting | flagellation | flogging | lashing | tanning | whipping

Beating In Webster's Dictionary

\Beat"ing\, n. 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. 3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See {Beat}, n. 4. (Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

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