beating
[noun]
Synonyms: defeat, debacle, defeasance, drubbing, licking, overthrow, rout, shellacking, thrashing, vanquishment

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Related Words: lump(s)

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beat‧ing /ˈbiːtɪŋ/ noun
[Word Family: noun: beat, beating; adjective: beatable ≠ unbeatable, beaten ≠ unbeaten; verb: beat]

1. [countable] an act of hitting someone many times as a punishment or in a fight:
a brutal beating

2. take a beating to lose very badly in a game or competition:
The Dodgers took a real beating on Saturday.
⇒ take some beating at beat¹(11)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

beating
noun
ADJ. brutal, savage, severe, terrible, violent
VERB + BEATING get, receive, suffer, take The team took a terrible beating.
give sb/sth They caught him and gave him a violent beating.

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