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n. An act of repeated hitting or striking.

n. A sound defeat.

n. A sharp reversal; a setback: Stocks took a beating from panicky investors.

n. A throbbing or pulsation, as of the heart.

n. Physics The periodic variation in amplitude of a wave produced by the superposition of two waves of different frequencies, resulting in segments of louder, and then quieter, sound.

n. action of the verb to beat

n. a heavy defeat or setback

n. the pulsation of the heart

v. Present participle of beat.

n. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

n. Pulsation; throbbing.

n. Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.

n. The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

n. The act of striking, or operating by blows; any process of working by percussion.

n. Punishment or chastisement by blows; a flogging.

n. The state of being beaten or out-done; a defeat.

n. Regular pulsation or throbbing.

n. 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.

n. Nautical, the act of advancing in a zigzag line against the wind.

n. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

n. the act of overcoming or outdoing

"“I never knew the expression beating the piss out of someone was literal.”"

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pulsation    throbbing   

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cheating    competing    completing    defeating    deleting    depleting    eating    fleeting    greeting    heating   

killing    whippings    burnings    mutilation    deprivation    privation    rape    maltreatment    coercion    intimidation