beating (n.)
- abrasion
- alternate
- arrhythmia
- atomization
- attrition
- bang
- barrage
- bash
- bastinado
- basting
- bat
- battery
- beat
- belt
- belting
- biff
- blow
- buffeting
- cadent
- caning
- chop
- clip
- clout
- clubbing
- clump
- collapse
- conquering
- conquest
- crack
- crash
- crushing
- cut
- cyclic
- dance
- dash
- deathblow
- debacle
- defeat
- destruction
- detrition
- dig
- dint
- disintegration
- downfall
- drubbing
- drum
- drumbeat
- drumfire
- drumming
- even
- failure
- fall
- flagellation
- flap
- flicker
- flit
- flogging
- flop
- flutter
- fluttering
- fragmentation
- fusillade
- granulation
- grating
- grinding
- heartbeat
- heartthrob
- hiding
- hit
- horsewhipping
- jab
- knock
- lacing
- lashing
- lick
- licking
- mashing
- mastery
- metric
- overthrow
- overturn
- palpitation
- paradiddle
- patter
- pelt
- periodical
- pitter-patter
- plunk
- poke
- pound
- pounding
- pulsation
- pulse
- pulsing
- punch
- quietus
- quiver
- rap
- rat-a-tat
- rat-tat
- rataplan
- reciprocal
- rhythm
- rhythmic
- roll
- rotary
- rout
- rub-a-dub
- ruff
- ruffle
- ruin
- seasonal
- serial
- shake
- slam
- slug
- smack
- smash
- smashing
- sock
- spanking
- spatter
- spattering
- splutter
- sputter
- sputtering
- steady
- stripes
- stroke
- subjugation
- swat
- swing
- swipe
- switching
- tat-tat
- tattoo
- tempo
- thrashing
- throb
- throbbing
- thrum
- thump
- thumping
- thwack
- ticking
- tom-tom
- trimming
- trouncing
- undoing
- waver
- whack
- wheeling
- whipping
- whop
The beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.
