Beating

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  • noun. An act of repeated hitting or striking.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A thorough defeat, as in an athletic contest.
  • noun. A sharp reversal; a setback.
  • noun. A throbbing or pulsation, as of the heart.
  • noun. The periodic variation in amplitude of a wave, especially that produced by the superposition of two waves of different frequencies, resulting in segments of more intense and then less intense wave phenomena, such as louder and then quieter sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of striking, or operating by blows; any process of working by percussion.
  • noun. Punishment or chastisement by blows; a flogging.
  • noun. The state of being beaten or out-done; a defeat.
  • noun. Regular pulsation or throbbing.
  • noun. In music, same as beat, 7 : but in this form more frequently applied to the beats of the strings of a piano or the pipes of an organ.
  • noun. Nautical, the act of advancing in a zigzag line against the wind.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
  • noun. Pulsation; throbbing.
  • noun. Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
  • noun. The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. action of the verb to beat
  • noun. a heavy defeat or setback
  • noun. the pulsation of the heart
  • verb. Present participle of beat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
  • noun. the act of overcoming or outdoing
  • Word Usage
    "“I never knew the expression beating the piss out of someone was literal.”"
    Hypernym
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    combat  fight  fighting  scrap  
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    Same Context
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    variant
    beat  
    verb-stem
    beat