beating

The action by which someone or something is beaten.

Noun

  1. The action by which someone or something is beaten.
    • the beating of a drum
    • secret beatings of prisoners
    • […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […] - 2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:
  2. A heavy defeat or setback.
    • To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same...
  3. The pulsation of the heart.

Origin

By surface analysis, beat + -ing.

Forms

beatings

Synonyms

ass beating ass kicking battering beatdown beating boom-boom clobbering dressing-down drubbing dusting flogging hiding going over kicking lacing lamming larruping leathering loundering licking pasting pummeling shellac shoeing

Hypernyms

assault penalty

Hyponyms

belting caning cudgeling fustigation neveling scourging strapping

Related

chastisement corporal punishment flagellation toco whackage

Derived

ass beating bare beating beating heart breast-beating chest-beating drumbeating goldbeating take some beating unbeating wifebeating wife-beating

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of beat