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beating
noun as in thrashing
Strong matches
Example Sentences
He had ample reason to fear for himself; before his seizure, he had personally witnessed beatings in others prisons.
Survivors told police that some of their fellow passengers began "attacking dozens of people, beating and abusing them in various ways", a police statement said.
But three days before beating Japan, the U.S. was thoroughly outplayed by South Korea in a 2-0 loss — the team’s sixth loss in 14 games this year — that raised alarm.
A female family member sits beside him, holding his hand, while a man protects him from the beating sun with an umbrella.
A robbery suspect sucker-punched him, he says, and his colleagues ostracized him for failing to retaliate with a beating.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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