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strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" move with a flapping motion; "The bird''s wings were flapping" sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" 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" the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing 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 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" hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" 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" move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I''m beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don''t know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
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