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wifebeatings

wifebeatings is the plural of wifebeating.

Meaning of wifebeating

Noun

wifebeating (countable and uncountable, plural wifebeatings)

  1. The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife.
    • That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually!1981, Marlene Cummings, Greta Marshall, Governor's Violence Against Women Task Force

Questions about wifebeatings

What is wifebeatings the plural of?
Wifebeatings is the plural of wifebeating.

Words near wifebeatings in the dictionary

  1. wife-takers
  2. wifeable
  3. wifebeater
  4. wifebeaters
  5. wifebeating
  6. wifebeatings
  7. wifed
  8. wifed up
  9. wifedom
  10. wifeguy
  11. wifeguys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wifebeatings (page history and authors); wifebeating (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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