beating
bee ting
- n the act of overcoming or outdoing
- n the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- v come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- v give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- v hit repeatedly
- v move rhythmically
Her heart was beating fast - v shape by beating
- v make a rhythmic sound
- v glare or strike with great intensity
The sun was beating down on us - v move with a thrashing motion
- v sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- v stir vigorously
- v strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- v be superior
- v avoid paying
- v make a sound like a clock or a timer
- v move with a flapping motion
- v indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- v move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- v make by pounding or trampling
- v produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- v strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- v beat through cleverness and wit
- v be a mystery or bewildering to
- v wear out completely
- One of the men who took part in the Reginald Denny beating.
- And the agency, headed by Doug Elmendorf, has taken a beating by Dems and outside groups for refusing to score savings that an emphasis on prevention might bring about and, as the .
- Once the four officers accused in the beating were acquitted a year later by a predominantly white jury in the majority white suburb of Simi Valley, all that rage turned into the .