Meaning of wife-beating | Babel Free

Definitions

Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.

Examples

“The Mishnah's mention of injuries inflicted on a woman by a man can refer to an assailant outside the family and to inadvertent assault, but the phrase surely includes a wife-beating husband, too.”

“The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.”

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