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Definition of beasting in English: beastingnounˈbiːstɪŋ mass nounBritish informal (especially in the armed forces) the process of subjecting a new recruit to harsh treatment in order to instil discipline. Example sentencesExamples - A few months of intensive beasting from Marty has changed all of that, though.
- They trained hard but their week was more about bonding than beasting.
- Before he died in hospital, one of the officers who oversaw it was boasting to colleagues in the mess that it was the "best beasting of his life".
- He collapsed from overheating in an alleged episode of what is known in Army slang as "beasting" - pushing someone to their physical and emotional limits.
- A junior soldier died of heatstroke after being subjected to an informal Army punishment known as a "beasting", a jury has heard.
- But he insisted the beasting remained the "substantial" cause of death.
- It's reported that the Army has an average recruit wastage rate of 50 per cent; because trainees can't take the "beasting" they get from their instructors.
- Dennis said the beasting was carried out by regimental police as an "informal summary punishment" intended to "humiliate, push to the limit and hurt".
- Later, before Williams died, Edwards boasted that he had given the "best beasting".
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