† to-beatv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To beat to pieces, to destroy by beating (Old English); to beat severely, belabour, thrash. Often emphasized by all (all adv. 4). Also absol. or intransitive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > beat or dash to pieces
to-slaya700
to-beatc893
to-torvec1000
to-hurtc1230
to-busta1250
to-dashc1275
dash1297
crazec1369
to-bray1382
to-flap1382
quasha1387
to-rusha1387
astone1440
stun1470
beat1570
to-swinge-
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)]
to-beata1400
hammerc1400
hampera1529
pounce1827
pummel1834
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. xiii. §3 & Scipia het ealle þa burg toweorpan, & ælcne hiewestan tobeatan.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1009 (Laud) Þa com him swilc wind ongean..and þa scipo ða ealle to beot.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1610 An euer euch man..me mid stone and lugge þreteþ, An me to-busteþ and to-beteþ.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 283 Mi wofull harte is so tobete.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1846 Þe wawes to bote bifore & bihynde.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxii. f. lviiiv He was all to betyn and arrayed in moost vyle maner.
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