beating

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, beat +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• 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^[1], 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.

2. A heavy defeat or setback.
   • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjerteslag n

  Nynorsk: hjarteslag n

• Russian: бие́ние (ru) n (bijénije)
• Spanish: latido (es) m

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Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} èrlîntcheuse f (Jersey)

Verb

beating

1. present participle and gerund of beat

Anagrams

• betaing