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  216 Moby Thesaurus words for "beating":
     Waterloo, abrasion, alternate, arrhythmia, atomization, attrition,
     bang, barrage, bash, bastinado, basting, bat, battery, beat, belt,
     belting, biff, blow, bonk, brecciation, buffeting, cadenced,
     cadent, caning, chop, circling, clicking, clip, clout, clubbing,
     clump, collapse, comminution, conquering, conquest,
     corporal punishment, cowhiding, crack, crash, crumbling, crushing,
     cudgeling, cut, cyclic, dance, dash, deathblow, debacle,
     defeasance, defeat, destruction, detrition, dig, dint,
     disintegration, downfall, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music,
     drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, epochal, even, every other, failure,
     fall, flagellation, flailing, flap, flicker, flit, flitter,
     flogging, flop, flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, fusillade,
     fustigation, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding,
     heartbeat, heartthrob, hiding, hit, horsewhipping, in numbers,
     in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, jab, knock, lacing,
     lambasting, lashing, lathering, levigation, lick, licking, mashing,
     mastery, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, overcoming,
     overthrow, overturn, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter,
     pelt, periodical, pistol-whipping, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk,
     poke, pound, pounding, powdering, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation,
     pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, punch, quietus, quiver, rap,
     rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rawhiding,
     reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythm, rhythmic, roll, rotary,
     rout, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, ruin, scourging, seasonal, serial,
     shake, shellacking, shredding, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash,
     smashing, sock, spanking, spatter, spattering, splutter,
     spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, steady, strapping,
     stripes, stroke, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swat, swing,
     swingeing, swipe, switching, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, thrashing,
     throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack,
     ticking, tom-tom, trimming, trituration, trouncing, truncheoning,
     undoing, undulant, undulatory, vanquishment, wavelike, waver,
     whack, wheeling, whipping, whop, yerk