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# beating

«beating» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (beatings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A beating is a hitting with a stick or hands as a punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#m1)

2) A beating is also a heavy defeat, as in «our team took a beating». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#m2)

3) Beating can mean the regular throb of a heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, cruel punishment; in sport, a loss; in stories, a heart full of kind feeling

### examples

- The bully gave him a beating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#x1)
- Our team took a beating in the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#x2)
- I felt my heart's beating fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#x3)
- She had a beating from her husband. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [So play, laugh and enjoy beating the bot at your own riddles, and check anything that matters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/4/)
- [When a game keeps beating you, a break and a drink of water help, because a tired, angry brain plays worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/9/)
- [Soon she was beating him on purpose instead of by accident.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/8/)
- [Teasing someone after beating them online can turn a game into a real fall-out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/31/)
- ["Beat about the bush" means avoid saying something directly; it comes from hunters beating bushes to scare birds out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beating» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beating/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.