Meaning of BEATING
| Pronunciation: | | 'beeting
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- [n] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- [n] the act of overcoming or outdoing
- [adj] expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart"
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| | Synonyms: | | drubbing, lacing, pulsating, pulsing, rhythmic, rhythmical, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| | See Also: | | combat, corporal punishment, fight, fighting, flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Beat"ing\, n.
1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or
chastisement by blows.
2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See {Beat}, n.
4. (Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks
in zigzag direction.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are beaten indicates that you need to make some fundamental changes to yourself. You need to make some conscious adjustments and evaluations.
Dreaming of others being beaten, suggests that some part of your life is out of balance. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, rataplan, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, 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 |
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