BEATINGS Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

beatings

noun

plural of beating

as in pulses

a rhythmic expanding and contracting he wears a pacemaker to help maintain a regular beating of his heart

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as in defeats

failure to win a contest took a beating and ended up in second place

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Recent Examples of beatings Complaints about poor conditions were often ignored or met with violence, including late-night beatings and pepper spray, detainees said. — Churchill Ndonwie, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026 Complaints about poor conditions were often ignored or met with violence, including late-night beatings and pepper spray, detainees said. — Miami Herald, 10 July 2026 Withstanding territorial beatings from rival lions. — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 According to prosecutors, who cited testimony and evidence at McCue's trial, the children allegedly suffered severe beatings and were forced to wear shock collars and stand naked on cinder blocks for hours or sometimes days at a time. — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026 Others targeted with beatings and forms of public shaming — including children — were accused of theft, drug trafficking or illegally selling tobacco. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 Watching Nate slowly meet consequences in beatings from mobsters, while Cassie could barely muster concern, was Levinson succeeding at gallows humor. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 June 2026 Police stopped the violence there that night, but more racist beatings and looting erupted downtown. — USA Today, 2 June 2026 Eye contact often led to beatings. — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026

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Noun

The achievement of building a quantum heat engine sets the stage to build an entire autonomous heat engine that can perform jobs like reading qubits without using microwave pulses from temperatures near absolute zero to room temperature.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Its wearables include a sleep aid that BrainCo says uses low-intensity electrical pulses to stimulate neurochemicals associated with stress relief.

— Elaine Yu, CNBC, 11 July 2026

Definition of pulses

Noun

Your mind fills with all the defeats; all the anguish of mistakes made and opportunities missed.

— Kristine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 16 July 2026
Then came consecutive defeats to Georgia and Georgia Tech, two losses under totally different circumstances that launched this downfall.

— Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of defeats

Noun

Raving can be traced to the late 1980s, when artists like DJ Pierre and Spanky sparked a bright but short flame of acid house in Chicago clubs, manipulating synthesizers to create squelchy beats dancers could jack their bodies to.

— Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 15 July 2026
At the same time, the episode still leaves space for slower beats, including some joyously non-essential downtime moments.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of beats

Noun

Reynolds cites the early-18th-century diary of William Byrd II, who read Homer in the morning and administered whippings to refractory slaves in the afternoon.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
There was physical violence as well — whippings, beatings, even bricks thrown.

— Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026

Definition of whippings

Noun

Shein will publicly list in Hong Kong after finally receiving Beijing’s approval, deepening its Chinese roots following global setbacks.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has also been met with a series of setbacks.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 14 July 2026