- [countable] an act of hitting somebody hard and repeatedly, as a punishment or in a fight
- to give somebody a beating
- They caught him and gave him a violent beating.
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- savage
- severe
- …
- get
- receive
- suffer
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- [countable] (informal) a very heavy defeat
- The team has taken a few beatings this season.
- [uncountable] a series of regular hits to something such as a drum, or movements of something, such as your heart; the sound that this makes
- He could hear the beating of his own heart.
- the beating of drums/wings
Idioms
See beating in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee beating in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishtake some beating
- (British English) to be difficult to do better than or be better than
- As a place to live, Oxford takes some beating.
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