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By surface analysis, beat +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

beating (countable and uncountable, plural beatings)

1. The action by which someone or something is beaten.

   the beating of a drum

   secret beatings of prisoners

   • 2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:

     […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]

   • 2018 August 18, Susan Edelman, New York Post:

     “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.

   • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022:

     The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.

   • 2023 August 21, Paul Adams, “Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards - report”, in BBC‎^[2], archived from the original on 3 February 2024:

     Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.

2. A heavy defeat or setback.

   • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[3], archived from the original on 29 July 2012:

     To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.

3. The pulsation of the heart.

beating

1. present participle and gerund of beat

• betaing