Usually means: Striking repeatedly to inflict pain.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. beating: Merriam-Webster
  2. beating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beating: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beating: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beating: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beating, beating: Wordnik
  7. beating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beating: Wiktionary
  9. beating: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beating: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beating: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Beating, beating: Dictionary.com
  13. beating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Beating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Beating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. beating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. beating: Rhymezone
  18. Beating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. beating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. beating: FreeDictionary.org
  21. beating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. beating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. beating: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. beating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. beating: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. beating: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. beating: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. beating: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beating: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Paper Making (No longer online)

(Note: See beat as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action by which someone or something is beaten.
noun:  A heavy defeat or setback.
noun:  The pulsation of the heart.

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