To beat up (a person) more than usually severely.
To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports.
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.