Beating and Round

Beating

Beating noun - A rhythmic expanding and contracting.

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Round and beating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Round" instead an adjective "Beating".

Nearby Words: beat, beaten, beater, beatable

Round adjective - Having every part of the surface the same distance from the center.

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Beating and round are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beating" instead an adjective "Round".

Nearby Words: rounded, rounder, roundly, roundel, roundish

good	good beating	good round
long	long beating	long round
normal	normal beating	normal round
standard	standard beating	standard round
Other adjectives: original, free, heavy, actual, real, massive, slow, final, extra, last, occasional.

Instead Pacquiao effortlessly crushed De La Hoya, beating him repeatedly for round after round, but not being able to knock out De La Hoya due to the size difference and De La Hoya's iron jaw.

Source: Death of a Thousand Cuts aka: Death By A Thousand Cuts
This is the most common example of this trope — with most common enemies, it's quicker to just beat up your opponents instead of spending a round or two inflicting debuffs or status ailments and then beating them up.

Source: Useless Useful Spell
The first round can be fast paced and exciting, but after 10 minutes of trying (and mostly succeeding) in beating the crap out of each other, the fighters noticeably slow down in the final round.

Source: Combat Breakdown

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