Beating (root: beat)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: beat=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Beating, n. 

•  The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Beating, n.
1 a physical punishment or assault.
2 a defeat.

Idiom

take some (or a lot of) beating be difficult to surpass.

THESAURUS

Beating

Waterloo, abrasion, alternate, arrhythmia, atomization, attrition, bang, barrage, bash, bastinado, basting, bat, battery, beat, belt, belting, biff, blow, bonk, brecciation, buffeting, cadenced, cadent, caning, chop, circling, clicking, clip, clout, clubbing, clump, collapse, comminution, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crack, crash, crumbling, crushing, cudgeling, cut, cyclic, dance, dash, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, detrition, dig, dint, disintegration, downfall, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, epochal, even, every other, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flap, flicker, flit, flitter, flogging, flop, flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, fusillade, fustigation, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, heartbeat, heartthrob, hiding, hit, horsewhipping, in numbers, in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, jab, knock, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, levigation, lick, licking, mashing, mastery, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pelt, periodical, pistol-whipping, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk, poke, pound, pounding, powdering, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation, pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, punch, quietus, quiver, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rawhiding, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythm, rhythmic, roll, rotary, rout, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, ruin, scourging, seasonal, serial, shake, shellacking, shredding, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, smashing, sock, spanking, spatter, spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, steady, strapping, stripes, stroke, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swat, swing, swingeing, swipe, switching, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, thrashing, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack, ticking, tom-tom, trimming, trituration, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, undulant, undulatory, vanquishment, wavelike, waver, whack, wheeling, whipping, whop, yerk

ROGET THESAURUS

Beating

Failure

N failure, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment, dead failure, successlessness, abortion, miscarriage, brutum fulmen, labor in vain, no go, inefficacy, inefficaciousness, vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts, flash in the pan, lame and impotent conclusion, frustration, slip 'twixt cup and lip, blunder, fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall, false step, wrong step, faux pas, titubation, b_evue, faute, lurch, botchery, scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown, flunk, mishap, split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion, repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture, beating, drubbing, quietus, nonsuit, subjugation, checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate, fall, downfall, ruin, perdition, wreck, deathblow, bankruptcy, losing game, affaire flamb_ee, victim, bankrupt, flunker, flunky, unsuccessful, successless, failing, tripping, at fault, unfortunate, abortive, addle, stillborn, fruitless, bootless, ineffectual, ineffective, inconsequential, trifling, nugatory, inefficient, insufficient, unavailing, of no effect, aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited, foiled, defeated, struck down, borne down, broken down, downtrodden, overborne, overwhelmed, all up with, ploughed, plowed, plucked, lost, undone, ruined, broken, bankrupt, played out, done up, done for, dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head, destroyed, frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed, thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends, unhorsed, in a sorry plight, hard hit, stultified, befooled, dished, hoist on one's own petard, victimized, sacrificed, wide of the mark, out of one's reckoning, left in the lurch, thrown away, unattained, uncompleted, unsuccessfully, to little or no purpose, in vain, re infecta, the bubble has burst, the jig is up, the game is up, all is lost, the devil to pay, parturiunt montes, dies infaustus, tout est perdu hors l'honneur.

Punishment

N punishment, punition, chastisement, chastening, correction, castigation, discipline, infliction, trial, judgment, penalty, retribution, thunderbolt, Nemesis, requital, penology, retributive justice, lash, scaffold, imprisonment, transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism, penal servitude, hard labor, galleys, beating, flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear, blow, stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel, slap, slap in the face, wipe, douse, coup de grace, torture, rack, picket, picketing, dragonnade, capital punishment, execution, lethal injection, the gas chamber, hanging, electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines, decapitation, decollation, garrotte, garrotto, crucifixion, impalement, firing squad, martyrdom, auto-da-fe, noyade, happy dispatch, hara-kiri, seppuku, drinking the hemlock, punishing, penal, punitory, punitive, inflictive, castigatory, punished, Int, a la lanterne!, culpan paena premit comes, eating the bitter bread of banishment, gravis ira regum est semper, sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo.

Impulse

N impulse, sudden thought, impromptu, improvisation, inspiration, flash, spurt, improvisatore, creature of impulse, extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate, snap, improvised, improvisate, improvisatory, unpremeditated, unmeditated, improvise, unprompted, unguided, natural, unguarded, spontaneous, instinctive, extempore, extemporaneously, offhand, impromptu, a limproviste, improviso, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, impulse, impulsion, impetus, momentum, push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw, explosion, propulsion, percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump, impact, elan, charge, beating, blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab, fillip, slam, bang, hit, whack, thwack, cuff, squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration, ruade, arietation, cut, thrust, lunge, yerk, carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe, hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail, ram, rammer, battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat, cant hook, cudgel, ax, dynamics, seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector, impelling, impulsive, impellent, booming, dynamic, dynamical, impelled, a hit, a very palpable hit.