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English Dictionary: beating	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beating n the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows Synonym(s): beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. 5. To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc. {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition. {To beat off}, to repel or drive back. {To beat out}, to extend by hammering. {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.[b8] --South. {To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot. {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beating \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.