'Beating' definitions:
Definition of 'beating'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Beating'
From: GCIDE
- Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.]
- 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. [1913 Webster]
- They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. [1913 Webster]
- To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. [1913 Webster]
- A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To tread, as a path. [1913 Webster]
- Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to. [1913 Webster]
- He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. [1913 Webster]
- Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that. [1913 Webster]
- 11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. [1913 Webster]
- To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition.
- To beat off, to repel or drive back.
- To beat out, to extend by hammering.
- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." --South.
- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.
- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beating'
From: GCIDE
- Beating \Beat"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beating'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrasion,
- alternate,
- arrhythmia,
- atomization,
- attrition,
- bang,
- barrage,
- bash,
- bastinado,
- basting,
- bat,
- battery,
- beat,
- belt,
- belting,
- biff,
- blow,
- bonk,
- brecciation,
- buffeting,
- cadenced,
- cadent,
- caning,
- chop,
- circling,
- clicking,
- clip,
- clout,
- clubbing,
- clump,
- collapse,
- comminution,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- corporal punishment,
- cowhiding,
- crack,
- crash,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- cudgeling,
- cut,
- cyclic,
- dance,
- dash,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- defeasance,
- defeat,
- destruction,
- detrition,
- dig,
- dint,
- disintegration,
- downfall,
- drub,
- drubbing,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- epochal,
- even,
- every other,
- failure,
- fall,
- flagellation,
- flailing,
- flap,
- flicker,
- flit,
- flitter,
- flogging,
- flop,
- flutter,
- fluttering,
- fragmentation,
- fusillade,
- fustigation,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grinding,
- heartbeat,
- heartthrob,
- hiding,
- hit,
- horsewhipping,
- in numbers,
- in rhythm,
- intermittent,
- isochronal,
- jab,
- knock,
- lacing,
- lambasting,
- lashing,
- lathering,
- levigation,
- lick,
- licking,
- mashing,
- mastery,
- measured,
- metric,
- metronomic,
- oscillatory,
- overcoming,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- palpitant,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patter,
- pelt,
- periodical,
- pistol-whipping,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plunk,
- poke,
- pound,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- pulsatile,
- pulsating,
- pulsation,
- pulsative,
- pulsatory,
- pulse,
- pulsing,
- punch,
- quietus,
- quiver,
- rap,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- rawhiding,
- reciprocal,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- rhythm,
- rhythmic,
- roll,
- rotary,
- rout,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- ruin,
- scourging,
- seasonal,
- serial,
- shake,
- shellacking,
- shredding,
- slam,
- slog,
- slug,
- smack,
- smash,
- smashing,
- sock,
- spanking,
- spatter,
- spattering,
- splutter,
- spluttering,
- sputter,
- sputtering,
- staccato,
- steady,
- strapping,
- stripes,
- stroke,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjugation,
- swat,
- swing,
- swingeing,
- swipe,
- switching,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- tempo,
- thrashing,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thrumming,
- thump,
- thumping,
- thwack,
- ticking,
- tom-tom,
- trimming,
- trituration,
- trouncing,
- truncheoning,
- undoing,
- undulant,
- undulatory,
- vanquishment,
- Waterloo,
- wavelike,
- waver,
- whack,
- wheeling,
- whipping,
- whop,
- yerk
Words containing 'Beating'
- Beat,
- To beat about,
- To beat down,
- To beat into,
- To beat off,
- To beat out,
- To beat out of,
- To beat up,
- To beat up and down,
- beat about,
- beat down,
- beat in,
- beat it,
- beat off,
- beat out,
- beat up,
- beats,
- A beating wind,
- Beat of a clock,
- Beat of a watch,
- Beat of drum,
- To beat a parley,
- To beat about the bush,
- To beat the dust,
- To beat the hoof,
- To beat the rap,
- To beat the record,
- To beat the wing,
- To beat time,
- To beat to a mummy,
- To beat up for recruits,
- To-beat,
- beat a retreat,
- beat back,
- beat generation,
- beat the drum,
- beat-up,
- dead beat,
- Dry-beat,
- Gold-beating,
- Storm-beat,
- beat around the bush,
- beats per minute,
- Double-beat valve,
- beating-reed instrument,
- battered beat-up beaten-up bedraggled broken-down dilapidated ramshackle tumble-down unsound