1. Only the timely intervention of the police saved us from a severe beating.

2. The act of hitting someone hard a number of times in a fight or as a punishment The man had been given a severe Beating.

3. Beating noun [C] (HIT) an act of hitting someone repeatedly and hard: She gave her son a severe Beating. (Definition of Beating from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © …

4. Dumitrache who identified the body reportedly indicated that it showed signs of severe beating, a broken leg, injuries to the abdomen and burn marks on the chest, which were not consistent with the information provided by the police;

5. Beat up (third-person singular simple present beats up, present participle beating up, simple past beat up, past participle beaten up or (US colloquial) Beat up) (transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows

6. He was admitted to a hospital the next day, Nha Bao & Cong Luan reported, and Son's medical file reported that his entire body was "covered with bruises, especially on the lower rib area; [and there are] several head and chest injuries from a severe beating the day before."

7. Bulldoze (v.) by 1880, "intimidate by violence," from an earlier noun, bulldose "a severe beating or lashing" (1876), said by contemporary sources to be literally "a dose fit for a bull," a slang word referring to the intimidation beating of black voters (by either blacks …