Cryptic crossword clue
Thorough beating means transferring allegiance 5-4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GOING

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What does GOING mean?

1. To move:
2. (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
3. To start; to begin (an action or process).
4. To take a turn, especially in a game.
5. To attend.
6. To proceed:
7. To follow or travel along (a path):
8. To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
9. To lead (to a place); to give access to.
10. To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
12. To continuously or habitually be in a state.
13. To come to (a certain condition or state).
14. To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
16. To tend (toward a result).
17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
18. To pass, to be used up:
19. To die.
20. To be discarded.
21. To be lost or out:
22. To break down or apart:
23. To be sold.
24. To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
25. To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
26. To have a certain record.
27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
28. To say (something), to make a sound:
29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
30. To resort (to).
31. To apply or subject oneself to:
32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
33. To date.
34. To attack:
35. To be in general; to be usually.
36. To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
37. To yield or weigh.
38. To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
39. To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
40. To urinate or defecate.

1. A departure.
2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
3. Progress.
4. Conditions for advancing in any way.
5. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
6. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
7. (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).

1. Likely to continue; viable.
2. Current, prevailing.
3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

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