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Common collocations with beating in American Collocation

beating noun countable

US /ˈbitɪŋ/

brutal
savage
severe
terrible
vicious
violent

Discovery often meant a brutal beating at the hands of the company guards.

receive

endure
get
receive
suffer

Peace activists suffered beatings and arrests.

give

administer
give someone
inflict

Ravi skipped school regularly, until his father found out and gave him the beating of his life for it!

The beatings were inflicted by their husbands.