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beat

the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"

a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"

the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"

a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"

a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"

strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"

stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"

shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"

produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"

make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"

move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"

indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"

sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"

move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"

move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"

avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"

be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"

Synonyms:

• Alexandrine,
• Bohemian,
• about ship,
• abrade,
• abscond,
• accent,
• accentuation,
• addle,
• addled,
• aerate,
• agitate,
• air lane,
• all in,
• all up with,
• alternation,
• amaze,
• ambit,
• amphibrach,
• amphimacer,
• anacrusis,
• anapest,
• andante tempo,
• antispast,
• area,
• arena,
• arrhythmia,
• arsis,
• article,
• at a loss,
• atomize,
• bacchius,
• back and fill,
• baffle,
• baffled,
• bailiwick,
• balk,
• bamboozle,
• bamboozled,
• bang,
• bar beat,
• barnacle,
• barrage,
• bash,
• baste,
• bastinado,
• baton,
• batter,
• bear away,
• bear off,
• bear the palm,
• bear to starboard,
• beat a ruffle,
• beat a tattoo,
• beat about,
• beat all hollow,
• beat hollow,
• beat it,
• beat off,
• beat the drum,
• beat time,
• beat to windward,
• beat up,
• beaten,
• beaten path,
• beating,
• beguile of,
• belabor,
• belt,
• best,
• bested,
• better,
• bicker,
• bilk,
• birch,
• blend,
• blow,
• bludgeon,
• boggle,
• bone-weary,
• border,
• borderland,
• bout,
• box off,
• bray,
• break,
• breakaway,
• brecciate,
• bring about,
• bring round,
• broke,
• bruise,
• budget of news,
• buffalo,
• buffaloed,
• buffet,
• bunco,
• bung,
• bung up,
• bureaucracy,
• bureaucratism,
• burn,
• burn out,
• bushed,
• busted,
• cadence,
• cadency,
• caesura,
• cane,
• cant,
• cant round,
• cast,
• cast about,
• catalexis,
• change course,
• change the heading,
• chase,
• cheat,
• chinoiserie,
• chisel,
• chloriamb,
• chloriambus,
• chouse,
• chouse out of,
• churn,
• churn up,
• circle,
• circuit,
• circumvent,
• clobber,
• close-haul,
• clout,
• club,
• cog,
• cog the dice,
• colon,
• comb,
• come about,
• comminute,
• compound time,
• con,
• confound,
• confounded,
• conquer,
• contriturate,
• contuse,
• convulse,
• copy,
• count,
• count the beats,
• counterpoint,
• course,
• cowhide,
• cozen,
• cream,
• cretic,
• crib,
• crumb,
• crumble,
• crush,
• cudgel,
• curry,
• cut,
• cycle,
• cyclicalness,
• dactyl,
• dactylic hexameter,
• daily grind,
• dance,
• dash,
• daze,
• dazed,
• dead,
• dead-and-alive,
• dead-tired,
• deadbeat,
• debilitate,
• defeat,
• defeated,
• defraud,
• demesne,
• depart,
• department,
• destroy,
• diaeresis,
• diastole,
• diddle,
• dimeter,
• din,
• ding,
• dipody,
• disappoint,
• disarrange,
• discipline,
• discomfited,
• discompose,
• disintegrate,
• disquiet,
• disturb,
• do,
• do in,
• do out of,
• do up,
• dochmiac,
• dog,
• dog-tired,
• dog-weary,
• domain,
• dominion,
• done,
• done for,
• done in,
• done up,
• double a point,
• down,
• downbeat,
• drained,
• drive,
• drive away,
• drive off,
• drub,
• drum,
• drum music,
• drumbeat,
• drumfire,
• drumming,
• duff,
• dump,
• duple time,
• elegiac,
• elegiac couplet,
• elegiac pentameter,
• emphasis,
• enervate,
• epitrite,
• euchre,
• exceed,
• excel,
• excite,
• exclusive,
• exhaust,
• exhausted,
• fag,
• fag out,
• fagged,
• fagged out,
• falcon,
• fallen,
• far out,
• fashion,
• fatigue,
• fatigued,
• feminine caesura,
• ferment,
• fetch about,
• field,
• finagle,
• fix,
• fixed,
• flag,
• flagellate,
• flail,
• flam,
• flap,
• flat,
• flat broke,
• fleece,
• flick,
• flicker,
• flight path,
• flimflam,
• flip,
• flit,
• flitter,
• flog,
• floor,
• floored,
• flop,
• flour,
• flurry,
• flush,
• flutter,
• foam,
• fob,
• foil,
• follow the hounds,
• foot,
• forage,
• forge,
• form,
• fowl,
• fragment,
• frazzle,
• free and easy,
• freeloader,
• fret,
• fringy,
• froth,
• fuddle,
• fuddled,
• fudge,
• full circle,
• fustigate,
• get,
• give a whipping,
• give the stick,
• go about,
• go hunting,
• go pitapat,
• gone,
• gouge,
• grain,
• granulate,
• granulize,
• grate,
• grind,
• grind to powder,
• groove,
• grub,
• gull,
• gun,
• gutter,
• gybe,
• gyp,
• hammer,
• harass,
• have,
• hawk,
• heartbeat,
• heartthrob,
• heave round,
• hemisphere,
• heptameter,
• heptapody,
• heretical,
• heroic couplet,
• heterodox,
• hexameter,
• hexapody,
• hide,
• hippie,
• hit the road,
• hocus,
• hocus-pocus,
• hors de combat,
• horsewhip,
• hound,
• hunt,
• hunt down,
• iamb,
• iambic,
• iambic pentameter,
• ictus,
• in a dilemma,
• in suspense,
• informal,
• intermittence,
• intermittency,
• ionic,
• itinerary,
• jack,
• jacklight,
• jade,
• jibe,
• jibe all standing,
• jingle,
• jog trot,
• judicial circuit,
• jurisdiction,
• keep in suspense,
• keep time,
• kinky,
• knock,
• knock out,
• knock up,
• knocked out,
• knout,
• lace,
• lam,
• lambaste,
• lap,
• largo,
• larrup,
• lash,
• lather,
• lathered,
• lay on,
• leave,
• leech,
• level of stress,
• levigate,
• lick,
• licked,
• lilt,
• line,
• loop,
• luff,
• luff up,
• make,
• manhandle,
• mantle,
• march,
• march tempo,
• masculine caesura,
• mash,
• master,
• maul,
• maverick,
• maze,
• measure,
• meter,
• metrical accent,
• metrical foot,
• metrical group,
• metrical unit,
• metrics,
• metron,
• mill,
• miss stays,
• mix,
• mixed times,
• molossus,
• mora,
• mould,
• movement,
• muddle,
• muddled,
• mulct,
• muss up,
• mystified,
• mystify,
• news item,
• nonplus,
• nonplussed,
• not cricket,
• not done,
• not kosher,
• number,
• numbers,
• offbeat,
• on tenterhooks,
• on the skids,
• oofless,
• orb,
• orbit,
• original,
• oscillation,
• outclass,
• outdo,
• outdone,
• outfight,
• outgeneral,
• outmaneuver,
• outpoint,
• outrun,
• outsail,
• outshine,
• outstrip,
• overborne,
• overcome,
• overfatigue,
• overmastered,
• overmatched,
• overpowered,
• overreach,
• overridden,
• overstrain,
• overthrown,
• overtire,
• overturned,
• overweary,
• overwhelm,
• overwhelmed,
• pack the deal,
• paddle,
• paeon,
• pale,
• palpitate,
• palpitation,
• panicked,
• pant,
• paradiddle,
• parasite,
• paste,
• path,
• patter,
• pelt,
• pendulum motion,
• pentameter,
• pentapody,
• period,
• periodicalness,
• periodicity,
• perplex,
• perplexed,
• perturb,
• perturbate,
• pestle,
• piece,
• pigeon,
• pinch,
• pistol-whip,
• piston motion,
• pitapat,
• pitter-patter,
• play drum,
• played out,
• ply,
• pommel,
• poop,
• poop out,
• pooped,
• pooped out,
• pound,
• pounding,
• powder,
• practice fraud upon,
• precinct,
• presto,
• prevail,
• prevail over,
• primary stress,
• primrose path,
• proceleusmatic,
• prosodics,
• prosody,
• prostrate,
• province,
• prowl after,
• pulsate,
• pulsation,
• pulse,
• pulverize,
• pummel,
• put,
• put about,
• put back,
• put to rout,
• puzzle,
• puzzled,
• pyrrhic,
• quantity,
• quiver,
• rag,
• ragtime,
• rake,
• ransack,
• rap,
• rat-a-tat,
• rat-tat,
• rat-tat-tat,
• rataplan,
• rattattoo,
• rawhide,
• ready to drop,
• realm,
• reappearance,
• recurrence,
• red tape,
• red-tapeism,
• reduce to powder,
• regular wave motion,
• reoccurrence,
• return,
• revolution,
• rhyme,
• rhythm,
• rhythmic pattern,
• rhythmical stress,
• ride to hounds,
• rile,
• ripple,
• rise above,
• road,
• roil,
• roll,
• rook,
• rotation,
• rough up,
• roughen,
• round,
• round a point,
• round trip,
• rounds,
• rout,
• route,
• routed,
• routine,
• rub-a-dub,
• rubato,
• ruff,
• ruffle,
• ruin,
• ruined,
• rummage,
• rumple,
• run,
• run away,
• run off,
• rut,
• sail fine,
• scam,
• scattered,
• scoop,
• scourge,
• screw,
• scrunch,
• scum,
• sea lane,
• search,
• seasonality,
• secondary stress,
• sell gold bricks,
• series,
• settle,
• settled,
• sextuple time,
• shake,
• shake up,
• shape,
• shard,
• shave,
• sheer,
• shellac,
• shift,
• shikar,
• shoot,
• shortchange,
• shortcut,
• shred,
• silenced,
• simple time,
• skin,
• skin alive,
• skinned,
• skinned alive,
• slat,
• sledgehammer,
• slew,
• smash,
• smear,
• smell-feast,
• smite,
• smother,
• sound a tattoo,
• spank,
• spatter,
• spell,
• spent,
• sphere,
• splatter,
• splutter,
• spondee,
• sponge,
• sponger,
• sport,
• spot news,
• sprung rhythm,
• spume,
• sputter,
• squash,
• squirrel cage,
• staccato,
• stack the cards,
• stalk,
• stampeded,
• start,
• stick,
• still-hunt,
• sting,
• stir,
• stir up,
• stone-broke,
• stony,
• story,
• strap,
• strapped,
• stress,
• stress accent,
• stress pattern,
• strike,
• stripe,
• stroke,
• stuck,
• stump,
• stumped,
• subdiscipline,
• subdue,
• sud,
• suds,
• surmount,
• surpass,
• swerve,
• swindle,
• swing,
• swing round,
• swing the stern,
• swinge,
• swirl,
• switch,
• syncopation,
• syncope,
• systole,
• syzygy,
• tack,
• take a dive,
• tan,
• tap,
• tat-tat,
• tattoo,
• tempo,
• tempo rubato,
• tertiary stress,
• tetrameter,
• tetrapody,
• tetraseme,
• thesis,
• thimblerig,
• thrash,
• three-quarter time,
• thresh,
• throb,
• throbbing,
• throw,
• throw a fight,
• throw about,
• thrown,
• thrum,
• thump,
• thumping,
• thwart,
• tick,
• ticktock,
• time,
• time pattern,
• timing,
• tire,
• tire out,
• tire to death,
• tired out,
• tired to death,
• tom-tom,
• top,
• touch the wind,
• tour,
• track,
• trade route,
• trail,
• traject,
• trajectory,
• trajet,
• trample,
• transcend,
• tread,
• treadmill,
• tribrach,
• trim,
• trimeter,
• trimmed,
• triple time,
• triplet,
• tripody,
• triseme,
• triturate,
• triumph,
• triumph over,
• trochee,
• trouble,
• trounce,
• trounced,
• truncheon,
• tucker,
• tuckered out,
• turn,
• turn back,
• two-four time,
• unconventional,
• undo,
• undone,
• undulation,
• unfashionable,
• unorthodox,
• upbeat,
• upset,
• use up,
• used up,
• vanquish,
• veer,
• victimize,
• waggle,
• walk,
• wallop,
• waltz time,
• washed-up,
• wave,
• waver,
• way out,
• weak stress,
• weaken,
• wear,
• wear down,
• wear on,
• wear out,
• wear ship,
• weary,
• weary unto death,
• well-worn groove,
• whack,
• whacked,
• whale,
• wheel,
• whelmed,
• whip,
• whip up,
• whipped,
• whisk,
• whop,
• wilt,
• win,
• wind,
• wiped out,
• work up,
• worn out,
• worn-out,
• worst,
• worsted,
• yaw