Assault and Beating

Assault

Assault noun - The act of forcing a person to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse.

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Beating and assault are semantically related in battery topic. In some cases you can use "Beating" instead a noun "Assault".

Nearby Words: assaulted, assaulting, assaulter

Beating noun - A rhythmic expanding and contracting.

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Assault and beating are semantically related in attack topic. Sometimes you can use "Assault" instead a noun "Beating".

Nearby Words: beat, beaten, beater, beatable

physical	physical assault	physical beating
public	public assault	public beating
relentless	relentless assault	relentless beating
original	original assault	original beating
Other adjectives: brutal, actual, constant, violent, massive, serious, huge, vicious, major, bloody, pointless, subsequent, last, verbal, horrific, full-on.

Inverted when Brian gets let back into school for beating someone in a video game, even though the reason he was expelled was for physical assault.

Source: Web Video / Video Game High School
Unfortunately, Warrick's angry certainty of that suspect leads to the that community centre leader finding the cleared suspect and beating him up and thus getting arrested for assault.

Source: Downer Ending / Live-Action TV
The repairman, shocked by the violent assault, asks Carlos if he is beating him up because he is gay.

Source: Discriminate and Switch

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