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Repulse, drive away by blows, as in We tried to beat off the flying ants swarming about us. Originating in the mid-1600s in a military context, this term was being used for other activities by the mid-1700s. Words nearby beat offBeatitudes, Beatles, beat man, beatnik, beatniks, beat off, Beaton, beat one's brains out, beat one's head against the wall, beat out, beat poets The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to beat offignore, refuse, spurn, rebuke, snub, repudiate, dismiss, deny, fend off, resist, oppose, chide, turn down, reject, disregard, withstand, confront, rebuff, ward off, hold off |