What is the meaning of beating?

noun

• The act of overcoming or outdoing.
  • synonyms: whipping
• The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.
  • synonyms: thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking

verb

• Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
  • usage: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
  • synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.
  • usage: "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
  • synonyms: beat, beat up, work over
• Hit repeatedly.
  • usage: "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
  • synonyms: beat
• Move rhythmically.
  • usage: "Her heart was beating fast"
  • synonyms: beat, pound, thump
• Shape by beating.
  • usage: "beat swords into ploughshares"
  • synonyms: beat
• Make a rhythmic sound.
  • usage: "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
  • synonyms: drum, beat, thrum
• Glare or strike with great intensity.
  • usage: "The sun was beating down on us"
  • synonyms: beat
• Move with a thrashing motion.
  • usage: "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
  • synonyms: beat, flap
• Sail with much tacking or with difficulty.
  • usage: "The boat beat in the strong wind"
  • synonyms: beat
• Stir vigorously.
  • usage: "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
  • synonyms: beat, scramble
• Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music.
  • usage: "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
  • synonyms: beat
• Be superior.
  • usage: "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work"
  • synonyms: beat
• Avoid paying.
  • usage: "beat the subway fare"
  • synonyms: beat, bunk
• Make a sound like a clock or a timer.
  • usage: "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
  • synonyms: tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat
• Move with a flapping motion.
  • usage: "The bird's wings were flapping"
  • synonyms: beat, flap
• Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.
  • usage: "Beat the rhythm"
  • synonyms: beat
• Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.
  • usage: "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
  • synonyms: pulsate, beat, quiver
• Make by pounding or trampling.
  • usage: "beat a path through the forest"
  • synonyms: beat
• Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.
  • usage: "beat the drum"
  • synonyms: beat
• Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting.
  • synonyms: beat
• Beat through cleverness and wit.
  • usage: "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
  • synonyms: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
• Be a mystery or bewildering to.
  • usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
  • synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
• Wear out completely.
  • usage: "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
  • synonyms: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out