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To hit; strike
example
As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
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To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
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He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
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To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
example
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
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To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
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To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
example
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
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(In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
example
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
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To indicate by beating or drumming.
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to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
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To tread, as a path.
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To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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To be in agitation or doubt.
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To make a sound when struck.
example
The drums beat.
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To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
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The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
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To arrive at a place before someone.
example
He beat me there.
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To have sexual intercourse.
example
Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
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To rob.
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He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.