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Synonyms & Antonyms of beating
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- he wears a pacemaker to help maintain a regular beating of his heart
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- took a beating and ended up in second place
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beating
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of beating (Entry 2 of 2)
- they attacked and beat him, but fortunately he'll be fine
Synonyms for beating
- bashing,
- basting,
- battering,
- batting,
- belaboring,
- belting,
- birching,
- bludgeoning,
- buffeting,
- bunging up,
- clubbing,
- currying,
- doing,
- drubbing,
- fibbing
- [British],
- flogging,
- hammering,
- hiding,
- lacing,
- lambasting,
- lashing,
- lathering,
- licking,
- mauling,
- messing (up),
- paddling,
- pelting,
- pommeling
- (or pommelling),
- pounding,
- pummeling
- (also pummelling),
- punching out,
- roughing (up),
- slating,
- slogging,
- switching,
- tanning,
- thrashing,
- threshing,
- thumping,
- tromping,
- walloping,
- whaling,
- whipping,
- whopping
- (or whapping),
- whupping,
- working over
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- assailing,
- assaulting,
- attacking,
- besetting,
- boxing,
- busting,
- chopping,
- clobbering,
- clouting,
- cracking,
- cudgeling
- (or cudgelling),
- cuffing,
- descending (on or upon),
- hitting,
- jumping (on),
- knocking,
- lamming,
- laying on,
- pasting,
- pouncing (on or upon),
- punching,
- raiding,
- rushing,
- slamming,
- slapping,
- smacking,
- smashing,
- socking,
- spanking,
- storming,
- swatting,
- swiping,
- thwacking,
- whacking,
- whamming,
- whomping
Phrases Synonymous with beating
- she always beats everyone at checkers, but she's not as good at chess
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- edging (out),
- nosing out,
- pipping
- [British]
- annihilating,
- blowing away,
- blowing out,
- bombing,
- breaking,
- burying,
- clobbering,
- creaming,
- crushing,
- drubbing,
- finishing,
- flattening,
- overwhelming,
- routing,
- shellacking,
- skinning,
- slaughtering,
- smoking
- [slang],
- snowing under,
- thrashing,
- trouncing,
- upsetting,
- walloping,
- waxing
- [slang],
- whipping
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- this new animated feature sure beats everything else that's ever been done in animation
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- besting,
- clobbering,
- conquering,
- crushing,
- defeating,
- drubbing,
- licking,
- mastering,
- outcompeting,
- outperforming,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- routing,
- shaming,
- skunking,
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- triumphing (over),
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- whipping,
- winning (against),
- worsting
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- the patient's heart beats roughly 60 times per minute
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- the bird's wings beat strongly as it soared in the air
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- you beat me to it
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- the medieval artisans who beat iron into exquisite swords
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- the tropical sun beat down on our heads without mercy
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- beat the drum in a marching rhythm
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- it beats me how that slipup happened
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- abashing,
- discomfiting,
- disconcerting,
- discountenancing,
- embarrassing,
- fazing,
- flustering,
- mortifying,
- nonplussing
- (also nonplusing),
- rattling
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- he spends all of his time trying to beat the system
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- years of pounding had beaten the pebbles to a fine dust
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- the screenwriter has filed a lawsuit, accusing the production company of beating him out of his share of the film's net profits
Synonyms for beating
- bilking,
- bleeding,
- cheating,
- chiseling
- (or chiselling),
- chousing,
- conning,
- cozening,
- defrauding,
- diddling,
- doing,
- doing in,
- euchring,
- fiddling,
- fleecing,
- flimflamming,
- gaffing,
- hosing
- [slang],
- hustling,
- mulcting,
- nobbling
- [British slang],
- plucking,
- reaming,
- ripping off,
- rooking,
- screwing,
- shaking down,
- shortchanging,
- shorting,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- squeezing,
- sticking,
- stiffing,
- stinging,
- suckering,
- swindling,
- thimblerigging,
- victimizing
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“Beating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beating. Accessed 14 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of beating was in the 13th century
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