I am certainly disgusted with the number of shootings, stabbings, beatings, etc.
From the post-gazette.com
Nine said they were subjected to daily beatings in the first weeks of detention.
From the buffalonews.com
Paddock also is charged with two counts of felony child abuse in their beatings.
From the newsobserver.com
Accusations of waterboarding, suffocation and beatings are mentioned throughout.
From the chron.com
I've heard people have been tortured, mainly through electrocution and beatings.
From the guardian.co.uk
After the physical beatings intensify, the risk of regression becomes enormous.
From the stltoday.com
What's the point of allowing the 38-year-old reliever to absorb these beatings?
From the stltoday.com
He told the school counselor about the beatings, the near-drownings, all of it.
From the denverpost.com
When we finally told him we were both journalists, the beatings suddenly stopped.
From the online.wsj.com
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The act of overcoming or outdoing
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
(beat) a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
(beat) all in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
(beat) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
(beat) pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
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