beating
Pulse of life
A beating is repeated blows delivered to a person or thing: The prisoner took a severe beating.
Extended to any decisive defeat: Our team took a beating in the playoffs.
The beating of a heart or drum is its rhythmic pulsing.
As an adjective, beating appears in beating heart and the phrase the beating sun, meaning intense and relentless.
Repeated striking blows
- floggingBeating as punishment
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- lashingBeating or binding
- caningStriking with a rod
thrashing · corporal · chastisement · flagellation · strapping · paddling · belting · scourging
Victory over another
- victoryDefeating an opponent
- trouncingOverwhelming defeat
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
shellacking · drubbing · walloping · crushing · domination · blowout · upset · humiliation
Arterial blood throb
- throbBeat with intensity
- palpitationIrregular heartbeat awareness
- lub-dubHeart's acoustic signature
- cardiacPertaining to the heart
rhythm · flutter · pounding · racing · systole · diastole · thumping · skipping
Sound through impact
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- sticksSlender wood pieces
- tempoRate of musical performance
- snareDevice for catching prey
bass · timpani · bongo · conga · tabla · cadence · pattern · groove
whipping
Repeated striking blows
caning · thrashing · corporal · chastisement · flagellation · strapping · paddling · belting · scourging · birching
defeat
Victory over another
rout · shellacking · drubbing · walloping · crushing · domination · blowout · upset · humiliation · lopsided
pulse
Arterial blood throb
- throbBeat with intensity
- palpitationIrregular heartbeat awareness
- lub-dubHeart's acoustic signature
cardiac · rhythm · flutter · pounding · racing · systole · diastole · thumping · skipping · irregular
percussion
Sound through impact
snare · bass · timpani · bongo · conga · tabla · cadence · pattern · groove · syncopation
whisking
Fast circular mixing
meringue · frothy · stiff · peaks · bowl · whisk · fork · mixer · incorporating · air
flapping
Rapid wing motion
bird · hummingbird · insect · moth · butterfly · rapid · frantic · rhythmic · swooping · airborne
- Egg thingscracking, hatching, incubation, egg whites, egg yolks
- outperformingsurpassing, exceeding, excelling, outperforming, outdoing
- pulsing motionsthrobbing, pounding, pulsating, pumping, palpitating
- rhythmic soundsticking, clapping, tapping, pulse, throbbing
- wrongdoingscrime, crimes, sin, sins, wrongdoing
- repeated hitspunches, jabs, drumming, hammering, pounding
beatingcaress
Gentle loving touch
gentle touch · petting · soothing · massage · stroke
beatingstillness
Complete lack of motion
flatline · stopping · cessation · cardiac arrest · motionlessness
- beating upPhysically assaulting someone
- beating around the bushAvoiding direct communication
- beating the systemCircumventing established rules cleverly
- beating downStriking repeatedly, forcefully
- beating heart
- beating itDeparting hastily, informally