beating
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, beat + -ing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beating (countable and uncountable, plural beatings)
- The action by which someone or something is beaten.
- the beating of a drum
- secret beatings of prisoners
- 2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:
- […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
- 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
- The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
- A heavy defeat or setback.
- 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- 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 long-term significance as this heavy beating.
- The pulsation of the heart.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]action of the verb to beat
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a heavy defeat or setback
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the pulsation of the heart
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Verb
[edit]beating
- present participle and gerund of beat
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