beating

Plural: beatings

Noun

• A defeat in a contest or game.
• the act of overcoming or outdoing
• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
• The action by which someone or something is beaten.
• A heavy defeat or setback.
• The pulsation of the heart.

Verb

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
• give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
• hit repeatedly
• move rhythmically
  • "Her heart was beating fast"
• shape by beating
• make a rhythmic sound
• glare or strike with great intensity
  • "The sun was beating down on us"
• move with a thrashing motion
• sail with much tacking or with difficulty
• stir vigorously
• strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
• be superior
• avoid paying
• make a sound like a clock or a timer
• move with a flapping motion
• indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
• make by pounding or trampling
• produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
• strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
• beat through cleverness and wit
• be a mystery or bewildering to
• wear out completely
• present participle and gerund of beat

Examples

• After losing by 200 points, he admitted it was a sound beating.
• secret beatings of prisoners
• the beating of a drum

Synonyms

amaze, baffle, beat, beat out, beat up, bewilder, bunk, circumvent, crush, drubbing, drum, dumbfound, exhaust, flap, flummox, get, gravel, lacing, licking, mystify, nonplus, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach, perplex, pose, pound, pulsate, puzzle, quiver, scramble, shell, stick, stupefy, thrashing, thrum, thump, tick, ticktack, ticktock, trounce, trouncing, tucker, tucker out, vanquish, vex, wash up, whacking, whipping, work over, ass beating, ass kicking, battering, beatdown, beating, boom-boom, clobbering, dusting, flogging, going over, hiding, kicking, lamming, larruping, leathering, loundering, pasting, pummeling, shellac, shoeing, smackdown, thumping, thwacking, warming, whaling, whopping, whupping, wiping

Related Words

chastisement, corporal punishment, flagellation, toco, whackage