BEATING
Dictionary entry overview: What does beating mean?
• BEATING (noun)
The noun BEATING has 2 senses:
1. the act of overcoming or outdoing
2. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Familiarity information: BEATING used as a noun is rare.
• BEATING (adjective)
The adjective BEATING has 1 sense:
1. expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart
Familiarity information: BEATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEATING (noun)
Meaning:
The act of overcoming or outdoing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
beating; whipping
Hypernyms ("beating" is a kind of...):
combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)
Meaning:
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
whacking; beating; trouncing; thrashing; licking; drubbing; lacing
Hypernyms ("beating" is a kind of...):
corporal punishment (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beating"):
flagellation; flogging; lashing; tanning; whipping (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment)
• BEATING (adjective)
Meaning:
Expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart
Synonyms:
beating; pulsating; pulsing
Context examples:
felt the pulsating artery / oh my beating heart
Similar:
rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)
