BEATING Synonyms

• any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely

• an excited state of agitation

• the motion made by flapping up and down

• a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body

• a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

• to flutter noisily when moved by the wind

• move with a thrashing motion

• move with a flapping motion

• make a fuss; be agitated

• pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds

• the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

• a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

• the ossicle attached to the eardrum

• a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.

• a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

• a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

• a power tool for drilling rocks

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• beat with or as if with a hammer

• create by hammering

• the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)

• negative criticism

• a vigorous blow

• a bad experience

• the act of hitting vigorously

• deliver a sharp blow or push

• rap with the knuckles

• knock against with force or violence

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• sound like a car engine that is firing too early

• find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws

• discuss the terms of an arrangement

• succeed in passing through, around, or over

• a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

• an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective

• a gentle blow

• a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball

• (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders

• a conspicuous success

• deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon

• have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

• hit against; come into sudden contact with

• make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target

• indicate (a certain time) by striking

• affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely

• stop work in order to press demands

• touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

• attain

• produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments

• cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp

• find unexpectedly

• produce by ignition or a blow

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

• cause to experience suddenly

• drive something violently into a location

• occupy or take on

• disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set

• form by stamping, punching, or printing

• smooth with a strickle

• pierce with force

• hook by a pull on the line

• arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing

• the sound made by a sharp swift blow

• the act of hitting vigorously

• strike hard

• have sexual intercourse with

• have sexual intercourse with

• have sexual intercourse with

• affect with wonder

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)

• a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• cause to be confused emotionally

• a long trough for feeding cattle

• a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

• a rough bed (as at a campsite)

• unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

• a message that seems to convey no meaning

• beds built one above the other

• avoid paying

• provide with a bunk

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• very tired

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• the close of a musical section

• a recurrent rhythmical series

• surround so as to force to give up

• beat through cleverness and wit

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

• a dense crowd of people

• temporary love of an adolescent

• the act of crushing

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• break into small pieces

• humiliate or depress completely

• crush or bruise

• make ineffective

• become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure

• no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

• not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat

• people who are no longer living

• a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

• completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

• quickly and without warning

• very tired

• unerringly accurate

• physically inactive

• (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

• devoid of physical sensation; numb

• lacking acoustic resonance

• not yielding a return

• not circulating or flowing

• not surviving in active use

• lacking resilience or bounce

• out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

• no longer having force or relevance

• the complete stoppage of an action

• drained of electric charge; discharged

• devoid of activity