Synonyms of the word

beating

• n. Action of the verb to beat.
• n. A heavy defeat or setback.
• n. The pulsation of the heart.
• v. present participle of beat.

combat

• n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
• v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

drubbing

• v. present participle of drub.
• n. A severe beating; a bace.
• n. A thorough defeat.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

fighting

• v. present participle of fight.
• adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
• adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
• n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

lacing

• v. present participle of lace.
• n. That with which something is laced.
• n. The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
• n. A beating as punishment; a hiding.

licking

• n. An act of licking.
• n. (slang) A severe beating.
• n. (slang) A great loss or defeat.
• v. present participle of lick.

pulsating

• v. present participle of pulsate.

pulsing

• v. present participle of pulse.
• n. The emission of pulses.
• n. The action of something that pulses.

rhythmic

• adj. Of or relating to rhythm.
• adj. Characterized by rhythm.
• adj. Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
• adj. With regular, repetitive motion or sound.

rhythmical

• adj. rhythmic.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

thrashing

• v. present participle of thrash.
• n. action of the verb to thrash.
• n. a beating, especially a severe one.
• n. (slang) A heavy defeat.
• n. (computing) excessive paging within virtual storage.
• n. (dance) slam dancing.
• n. (colloquial) threshing (of cereal crop, etc).

trouncing

• v. present participle of trounce.
• n. A thorough defeat.

whacking

• v. present participle of whack.
• adj. (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping.
• n. A beating.

whipping

• n. (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
• n. (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
• n. (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc.
• n. (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
• n. (nautical, whipping) The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501).
• v. present participle of whip.