Term: beating: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Candidate hypernym: punishment: the act of punishing → 1
Candidate hypernym: chirp: a sharp sound made by small birds or insects → 0
Candidate hypernym: babylonian: an inhabitant of ancient Babylon → 0
Candidate hypernym: mamo: black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypoxidaceae: in some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: environment: the area in which something exists or lives → 0
Candidate hypernym: neutralization: a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water → 0
Candidate hypernym: splitter: a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics → 0
Candidate hypernym: scopolia: genus of European perennial herbs yielding medicinal alkaloids → 0
Candidate hypernym: oil pump: a pump that keeps a supply of oil on moving parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: equivalent: a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc → 0