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beat /bēt/ transitive verb (beatˈing; beat; beatˈen or now (rarely) beat)- To strike repeatedly
- To pound
- To form (a path, track, etc) by frequent use of the same route
- To batter
- To whip up or switch
- To flap
- To strike (bushes, undergrowth, etc) in order to rouse game
- To thrash
- To defeat, to frustrate
- To forestall
- To be too difficult for
- To outdo, excel
- To drive or thrust (back, down, off, etc)
- To spread (eg gold) flat and thin by beating with a tool
- To mark (time) with a baton, etc
- To break or bruise (Bible)
intransitive verb- To give strokes repeatedly
- To flap
- To pulsate
- To impinge
- To mark time in music
- To swindle (US)
- To sail as close as possible to directly into the wind
noun- A recurrent stroke, its sound, or its moment, eg of a watch, verse, the pulse, or a conductor's baton
- The rhythmic base unit in music, usu grouped into bars
- Pulsation, esp that heard when two notes nearly in tune are sounded together
- A round or course, such as a policeman's
- An area of land or stretch of riverbank on which sportsmen hunt or fish
- A place of resort
- The act of beating in order to rouse game
adjective- Worn-out, exhausted (informal)
- Relating to beatniks (informal)
- Affected with bursitis (eg beat elbow or knee)
ORIGIN: OE bēatan, pat bēot beatˈable adjective beatˈen adjective - Made smooth or hard by beating or treading
- Trite
- Worn by use
- Exhausted and dispirited
beatˈer noun - A person who or thing which beats or strikes
- A person who rouses or beats up game
- A crushing or mixing instrument
beatˈing noun - The act of striking
- A thrashing
- A defeat
- Pulsation or throbbing
- The rousing of game
beatnik /bētˈnik/ noun - One of the beat generation (orig in US), bohemian poets, etc who, in the 1950s, dissociated themselves from the aims of contemporary society
- A young person whose behaviour, dress, etc is unconventional
beatˈbox noun (informal) - An electronic drum machine
- A ghetto-blaster
intransitive verb To imitate an electronic drum machine using the voice beatˈ-'em-up noun (informal) A type of computer game in which an unarmed character has to fight against several enemies beat music noun Popular music with a very pronounced rhythm beatˈ-up adjective (informal) Dilapidated through excessive use beat about the bush see under bush1 beat a retreat - To retreat, orig to beat the drum as a signal for retreat (beat the retreat to perform the military ceremony (beating the retreat) consisting of marching and military music usu performed at dusk, orig marking the recall of troops to their quarters)
- To go away in a hurry, esp to avoid punishment or unpleasantness
beat down Of a buyer, to try to reduce (the price of goods), to persuade (the seller) to settle for less beat it (slang) - To make off hastily or furtively
- (often as imperative) go away!
beat off To overcome or repel beat one's brains or beat one's brains out To puzzle about something beat one's breast To show extravagant signs of grief beat out To flatten or reduce in thickness by beating beat someone's brains out (slang) - To kill by hitting repeatedly on the head
- To subject to a vicious beating
beat someone to it To manage to do something before someone else can beat the air To fight to no purpose, or against an imaginary enemy beat the bounds To trace out boundaries in a perambulation, certain objects in the line of journey being formally struck beat the clock To do or finish something within the time allowed beat the pants or socks off (informal) To defeat thoroughly beat the retreat see beat a retreat above. beat up - To pound or whip into froth, paste, a mixture, etc
- To put up game, by beating the bushes, etc
- To alarm by a sudden attack
- (also in US beat up on) to thrash, to subject to a violent and brutal attack (informal)
- To disturb
- To arouse
- To go about in quest of anything
- To make way against wind or tide
(it) beats me (informal) I have no idea what the answer is take a beating (informal) To suffer physical or verbal chastisement take some (or a lot of) beating (informal) To be of very high quality, ie to be difficult to surpass |