Synonyms for beating
ˈbi tɪŋbeat·ing

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1. beating, whippingnoun

   the act of overcoming or outdoing

   Synonyms:
   whacking, flogging, whipstitch, whipstitching, lacing, whipping, lashing, drubbing, thrashing, licking, walloping, debacle, trouncing, tanning, flagellation, slaughter

2. beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whackingnoun

   the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

   Synonyms:
   thrashing, trouncing, walloping, debacle, whacking, drubbing, whipping, defeat, lacing, lace, licking, slaughter

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1. beatingnoun

   Synonyms:
   striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommelling, caning, flagellation, BASTINADO

2. beatingnoun

   Synonyms:
   beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing

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1. beatingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile

2. beatingnoun

   Synonyms:
   flagellation, drubbing, flogging, fustigation, castigation, thumping, mauling, verberation, pommeling, pulsation, throb, throbbing, saltation, defeat, repulse, malleation, forging, welding

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1. List of paraphrases for "beating":

   defeating, beat, hitting, caning, flying, spanking, hit, assault

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1. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe:

   For me, it's about beating Donald Trump, and to me it's an electability issue -- who has the best shot of beating Donald Trump.

2. Les Brown:

   A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party

3. Henry Ward Beecher:

   Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

4. Sir Philip Sidney:

   But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

5. Phillips Brooks:

   The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.