English-German translations for beating

• schlagend
  Die Grundrechte der Europäischen Union sind das schlagende Herz, die eigentliche Seele unserer Gemeinschaft, und Europa kann nur bestehen, wenn es eine Seele besitzt. The European fundamental rights are the beating heart, the very soul, of our community, and Europe will not exist unless it has a soul.
• Schmiere die

Definition of beating

• The action by which someone or something is beaten
• A heavy defeat or setback
• The pulsation of the heart

Examples

• the beating of a drum
• secret beatings of prisoners

Related words

• beating down
• beating up
• beating around the bush
• beating of the heart
• beating about
• beating around bush
• wife-beating question
• devil's beating his wife
• resort to beating around the bush