beat to death

This page is about the collocation beat to death

collocation pattern: verb + noun

Meaning

to beat a person or animal so badly that it causes death

For example

  • After the riot, the warders beat some of the prisoners to death.

  • In 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was beaten to death for speaking to a white woman.

Note:
A related collocation is "beat unconscious"

Quick Quiz

The victims were beaten to death by

a. their killers

b. their doctors

c. their accident
a) their killers b) their doctors c) their accident

Contributor: Matt Errey