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

   blows, coups, shots, stabs, strokes, bumps

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1. Chuck Peruto:

   They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

2. Shane Garcie:

   No, because there's so many. There's so many, there are so many reasons for the jarrings, for the beatings. Not just IEDs, not just car bombs, not just in a firefight or grenades going off.

3. Amnesty International:

   While in custody the men were tortured by security officers including through electric shocks and beatings. Ali Mohamed al-Arab's toenails were also ripped out.

4. Proverb:

   Where there are monks and priests, there is adultery and beatings.

5. George Ghali of Lebanese rights:

   There have been lots of arrests and lots of beatings, unfortunately many of them have been tolerated by local leadership or even by municipal police... and justified within the current security situation, what is concerning for us is not just retaliatory arrests but general xenophobia.