Term: beating: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Candidate hypernym: corporal punishment: the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime → 1
Candidate hypernym: sorbus: a genus of shrubs or trees of the family Rosaceae having feathery leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: footedness: the property of favoring one foot over the other (as in kicking a ball) → 0
Candidate hypernym: u: the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet → 0
Candidate hypernym: olea: evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: crab cocktail: a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce → 0
Candidate hypernym: hair of the dog: an alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover → 0
Candidate hypernym: scythian lamb: Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic → 0
Candidate hypernym: sacral plexus: a nerve plexus formed by the 4th and 5th lumbar and 1st, 2nd, 3rd sacral nerves; supplies the pelvic region and lower limbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: hagiographer: the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography → 0
Candidate hypernym: dip: (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon → 0