beating - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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By surface analysis, beat +‎ -ing.

beating (countable and uncountable, plural beatings)

  1. 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 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:
      “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
    • 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.
    • 2023 August 21, Paul Adams, “Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report”, in BBC‎[2], archived from the original on 3 February 2024:
      Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.
  2. A heavy defeat or setback.
    • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎[3], archived from the original on 29 July 2012:
      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.
  3. The pulsation of the heart.

action of the verb to beat

a heavy defeat or setback

the pulsation of the heart

beating

  1. present participle and gerund of beat