transcription, транскрипция: [ bi:tɪŋ ]
( beatings)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If someone is given a beating , they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
...the savage beating of a black motorist by white police officers...
The team secured pictures of prisoners showing signs of severe beatings.
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2.
If something such as a business, a political party, or a team takes a beating , it is defeated by a large amount in a competition or election.
Our firm has taken a terrible beating in recent years.
N-SING : a N
3.
If you say that something will take some beating , you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made. ( INFORMAL )
For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
PHRASE : V inflects