To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
To threaten or harass.
A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
The tort whose action is such an act.
The crime whose action is such an attempt.
To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up.
To feel badly guilty and accuse oneself over something. (Usually followed by over or about.)
To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets.
To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
A raid.
A tree planted later than others in a plantation.
A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up.
An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media.
A beating; a hazing.
Battered by time and usage; beaten up.