beating

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

beating

Wikipedia

Etymology

By surface analysis, beat +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

Noun

beating (countable and uncountable, plural beatings)

1. The action by which someone or something is beaten.

   the beating of a drum

   secret beatings of prisoners

   • 2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:

     […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]

   • 2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:

     “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.

   • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2022:

     The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.

   • 2023 August 21, Paul Adams, “Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report”, in BBC‎, archived from the original on 3 February 2024:

     Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.

2. A heavy defeat or setback.
   • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 29 July 2012:

     To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.

3. The pulsation of the heart.

Derived terms

• ass beating
• beating heart
• breast-beating
• chest-beating
• drumbeating
• goldbeating
• take some beating
• unbeating
• wife-beating
• wifebeating

Translations

action of the verb to beat

Arabic: ضَرْب (ar) m (ḍarb) Armenian: ծեծ (hy) (cec) Belarusian: біццё n (biccjó) (various senses), пабiццё n (pabiccjó) (battering of a person or an animal), пабо́i m pl (pabói) Bulgarian: биене (bg) (biene), удряне (udrjane), бой (bg) (boj) Catalan: pallissa (ca) f, batussa (ca) Esperanto: batado Finnish: taonta (fi), selkäsauna (fi) (battering of a person or an animal), löylytys (fi) (battering of a person or an animal) French: battage (fr) m Galician: malleira (gl) f, malladura f, tunda f, zurra f, boura f, soba f German: Schlagen n, Prügel (de) pl, Verprüglung f Indonesian: tabuhan (id), pukulan (id) Irish: greasáil f Italian: bastonatura Kabuverdianu: barapó Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لێدان (ckb) (lêdan), تێھەڵدان (têhelldan) Ladino: haftona Malay: paluan (ms), pukulan (ms) Norman: ronde f (Jersey), suée f (Jersey), dêgraîsseuse f (Jersey), latteuse f (Jersey), batt'tie f (Jersey) Norwegian: slag (no) n Polish: bicie (pl) n, uderzanie (pl) n or impf, wpierdol (pl) m (vulgar) Portuguese: sova (pt) f, surra (pt) f Russian: (various senses) бие́ние (ru) n (bijénije), битьё (ru) n (bitʹjó), (battering of a person or an animal) избие́ние (ru) n (izbijénije), побо́и (ru) m pl (pobói) Sardinian: Campidanese: cadra Logudorese: cadda, batacchio, antarzu Sassarese: matzàda, sagamàda, tùnda Serbo-Croatian: tući, bȉti (sh), mlatiti (sh), udarati (sh), lupati (sh) Spanish: paliza (es) f (Spain), golpiza (es) f (Latin America) Swahili: uchapaji Tamil: அடி (ta) (aṭi) Telugu: కొట్టుట (te) (koṭṭuṭa) Ukrainian: биття́ (uk) n (byttjá) (various senses), побиття́ n (pobyttjá) (battering of a person or an animal), побі́й m (pobíj) Zazaki: derb f

a heavy defeat or setback

Bulgarian: поражение (bg) (poraženie) Catalan: fart de jacos, gec de jacos Finnish: löylytys (fi) (informal) Galician: malleira (gl) f German: no equivalent term in German, but see vernichtende Niederlage f (crushing defeat) Italian: bastonata (it), smacco (it) m, sconfitta (it) f, sonora sconfitta Russian: пораже́ние (ru) n (poražénije) Sardinian: Campidanese: carda Logudorese: irrugada, carda Sassarese: adubàda, matzucàda Spanish: paliza (es) f Walloon: taene (wa) f, tatouye (wa) f

the pulsation of the heart

Bulgarian: туптене (bg) (tuptene) Esperanto: batado French: battement (fr) m Galician: latexo (gl) m, batido (gl) m, palpitación (gl) f German: Herzschlag (de) m Italian: battito (it) m Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لێدان (ckb) (lêdan) Malay: debar Norwegian: Bokmål: hjerteslag n Nynorsk: hjarteslag n Russian: бие́ние (ru) n (bijénije) Spanish: latido (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Norman: (please verify) èrlîntcheuse f (Jersey)

Verb

beating

1. present participle and gerund of beat

Anagrams

• betaing