beating

Substantiv

1. 1

   The action by which someone or something is beaten.

   the beating of a drum

   secret beatings of prisoners

   […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]

   “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.

2. 2

   A heavy defeat or setback.

   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. 3

   The pulsation of the heart.

Verb

1. 1

   Auch eine Form von beatpresent participle and gerund of beat

Formen

Plural

beatings