beatings
Repeated physical blows
Beatings are repeated blows inflicted on someone, typically as punishment or assault.
The word implies sustained violence rather than a single strike: The prisoner described daily beatings.
A beating can also be a decisive defeat: Our team took a beating in the playoffs.
To take a beating extends to anything suffering heavy damage or loss.
Of the flesh
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- whippingRepeated striking blows
- floggingBeating as punishment
caning · paddling · strapping · lashing · chastisement · birching · switching · thrashing
Violent offensive act
- batteryPortable electricity storage
- batteringRepeated forceful striking
- attackAggressive act against another
- brutalitySavage, merciless behavior
pummeling · bludgeoning · pounding · thrashing · mauling · blows · strikes · hitting
Being without something
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
- trouncingOverwhelming defeat
- shellackingCrushing, lopsided defeat
- drubbingDecisive, lopsided defeat
crushing · humiliation · blowout · landslide · walloping · massacre · domination · shutout
Struck membrane instruments
- percussionSound through impact
- tempoRate of musical performance
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- pulseArterial blood throb
meter · groove · polyrhythm · syncopation · measure · tattoo · timpani · bongo
Of the home
- victimOne harmed by another
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
- harassmentAggressive, unwanted targeting
cruelty · torment · maltreatment · suffering · injury · harm · oppression · child
corporal
Of the flesh
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- whippingRepeated striking blows
flogging · caning · paddling · strapping · lashing · chastisement · birching · switching · thrashing · correction
assault
Violent offensive act
- batteryPortable electricity storage
- batteringRepeated forceful striking
- attackAggressive act against another
brutality · pummeling · bludgeoning · pounding · thrashing · mauling · blows · strikes · hitting · kicking
loss
Being without something
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
- trouncingOverwhelming defeat
- shellackingCrushing, lopsided defeat
drubbing · crushing · humiliation · blowout · landslide · walloping · massacre · domination · shutout · sweep
drums
Struck membrane instruments
- percussionSound through impact
- tempoRate of musical performance
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
pulse · meter · groove · polyrhythm · syncopation · measure · tattoo · timpani · bongo · tabla
domestic
Of the home
- victimOne harmed by another
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
harassment · cruelty · torment · maltreatment · suffering · injury · harm · oppression · child · spousal
- repressionsecret police, mass arrests, torture, disappearances, detention camps
- thrashingsdrubbings, thrashings, whippings, floggings, lickings
- thuggerybullying, intimidation, strong-arming, menacing, threatening
- torturerack, the rack, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, iron maiden
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- crueltycruelty, brutality, inhumanity, viciousness, ruthlessness
beatingswins
Achieved first places
victories · triumphs · conquests · landslide victories · successes
beatingsnurturing
Supportive care-giving
care · tender loving care · protection · kindness · compassion
- 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