beating — OAT

beating

noun

1 he received a near fatal beating:

battering, thrashing, thumping, pounding, pummeling, drubbing, slapping, smacking, hammering, hitting, striking, punching, knocking, thwacking, cuffing, buffeting, boxing, mauling, pelting, lambasting;

assault, attack;

flaying, whipping, lashing, cudgeling, clubbing, birching;

corporal punishment, chastisement;

informal beating-up, duffing-up, doing-over, belting, bashing, pasting, walloping, whacking, clobbering, slugging, tanning, biffing, bopping, hiding.

2 she could hear the beating of her heart:

pulsation, pulsating, pulse, pulsing, palpitating, throb, reverberation, reverberating;

pumping, pounding, thumping, thudding, hammering, drumming;

pitter-patter, pit-a-pat.

3 a 5–1 beating at the hands of their rivals:

defeat, loss, conquest, vanquishing, trouncing, routing, overthrow, downfall;

informal licking, thrashing, clobbering.