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n. - The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows; The act of overcoming or outdoing. Also: Moving with pulsation, throbbing.

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  • What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
  • They're half way home to the title beating Colorado 2-1 in a pitchers 'dual last night in Colorado.
  • Standing tall at five feet nine inches, Choudhury, 22, won the title beating 19 other contestants Sunday.
  • If that's what you call beating off in the Adult Contemporary isle.
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