Synonyms for beating
Definitions
- n. 1
The action by which someone or something is beaten.
secret beatings of prisoners
- n. 2
A heavy defeat or setback.
- n. 3
The pulsation of the heart.
Related words
- Phrases
- bare beating beating heart
- Is a kind of
- assault penalty
Forms
- Plural
- beatings → thrashings, thumpings, drubbings, lickings…
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To batter and to bruise refer to the results of beating; that is battered which is broken or defaced by repeated blows on the surface (compare synonyms for SHATTER); that is bruised which has suffered even one severe contusion.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- defeat Don't do that, Tom! That would defeat the purpose!
- thumping Ivan heard some thumping sounds coming from a box.
- thrashing We gave them a proper thrashing.
- drubbing After its drubbing at the polls, the party has to reinvent itself.
- whipping Tom could feel the air whipping his face as he ran.
- flogging Have you ever considered trying flogging in our play?
By length
- 5 letters
- throb1
- 6 letters
- defeat2, hiding2, lacing, caning2
- 7 letters
- warming2, licking2, bashing2
- 8 letters
- whipping2, thumping2, flogging2, whacking2, drubbing2
- 9 letters
- throbbing2, thrashing2, pulsation
- 11 letters
- palpitation4, fustigation
- 12 letters
- flagellation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (defeat2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- battage