Synonyms for beatings
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1. List of paraphrases for "beatings":

   blows, coups, shots, stabs, strokes, bumps

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1. Daren Coulston:

   I learned that many of them had been cheated of their wages, subjected to beatings and in some cases, sexually assaulted by the ships' officers, it's hard to talk about these experiences for men. Most of them rather pretend it never happened.

2. Nicholas Alahverdian:

   I had other problems — I dressed nicely. I used words that were not monosyllabic. I aspired to go to Harvard University or Yale. The DCYF receptionist and the security guard would nod and smile at the narrative for my future. The social workers would counsel me to dress with baggy jeans and speak like a child so as to not elicit beatings by the other kids.” Excerpt From: Nicholas Alahverdian. “Ignoble Inferno/ The Nicholas Alahverdian Lawsuit.” iBooks.

3. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.

4. Read MorePre-teen bride Amal:

   He treated me horribly, then when the beatings became every day, I went to the police station.

5. Jang Jin-sung:

   It's like it only counts as a human rights problem if there are literal beatings, camps, but the entire system is brutal and inhumane. The way the surveillance is run ... The physical aspect is just one side of the experience.