beating

Preposition: about

bush: Let us have no more beating about the bush.

Converse of object

• torture: They wanted to hear tales of torture, beatings and brutality.
• endure: Samina, married with seven children, endured severe beatings.
• administer: The men who had been sent to administer the beating laughed.
• drum: There was a drum beating in the background, throbbing in time with his pulse.

Preposition: around

bush: Stop beating around the bush and start getting to the heart of the matter.

Adjective modifier

• savage: What can we do in terms of a code of conduct to stop you from getting a savage beating?
• brutal: The faint of heart should be prepared for the brutal, barbaric beatings that Christ endures.
• vicious: At some time during the next two to three hours he received a vicious beating.
• severe: The freed men showed marks of severe beatings on their body.
• repeated: Many have impairments as a result of repeated beatings and being made to carry heavy loads for long distances.
• irregular: This may be due to irregular heart beating or fast heart rate.

Modifies a noun

heart: Sound waves create a picture of the beating heart which is seen on a computer screen.

Noun used with modifier

• punishment: There he receives a punishment beating which keeps him in hospital for weeks.
• heart: I could feel your heart beating on my chest.
• drum: There was a flag on every house, crackers going off, drums beating, singing and crying " Viva Pacheco " .
• wife: Ten percent of both men and women reported wife beating in the last year.
• chest: No amount of chest beating can conceal how wrong these assumptions were.

Preposition: of

• drum: Hard on its heels is ' Stress ' which opens with the military beating of drums giving way to a heavy guitar riff.
• bound: The annual ceremony of the beating of the bounds made sure that these would not be forgotten or altered.