A woman could be beaten for that sort of thing.

I didn't think he'd been beating other women off with a stick.

The women and the kids had been really badly beaten.

You get to beat women to death with baseball bats.

Four women were beaten as they sat in a park eating lunch.

After all, an American woman is beaten by her husband or boyfriend every 15 seconds.

I think the Chinese women can and will be beaten.

That woman won't be beaten once and for all until we see blood.

"Some people have been beaten badly, family members and women," she added.

Also, being larger, men could threaten to, and did, beat women.