Word Finder - beaten

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To hit; strike

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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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• hammer
• knock
• pound
• strike
• whack

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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.

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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.

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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

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He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

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• negotiate

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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.

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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.

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He beat me there.

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To have sexual intercourse.

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Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

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• do it
• get it on
• have sex
• shag

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To rob.

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He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

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Defeated

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Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows

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a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack

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(of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement

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Trite; hackneyed

Someone had beaten them home.

His little army had been beaten and scattered.

Her unwillingness to be beaten has developed her courage.

Having been beaten in a trial of soothsaying, Calchas died of chagrin or committed suicide.

The king looked, and saw that his soldiers were beaten, and that the battle was everywhere going against him.

He'd have beaten her to ... a light came on.

Jonny's body was bloodied and beaten, though his pulse was strong.

He reached out to her, pained by her beaten appearance.

Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

After having been somewhat neglected for the greater attractions and wider field presented by organic chemistry, the study of the elements and their inorganic compounds is now' rapidly coming into favour; new investigators are continually entering the lists; the beaten paths are being retraversed and new ramifications pursued.

All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored up against him.

You and me have beaten this bush a few times before, partner.

The beds are to be spawned when the heat moderates, and the surface is then covered with a sprinkling of warmed loam, which after a few days is made up to a thickness of 2 in., and well beaten down.

The strikers were beaten, but certain abuses were corrected.

There, it has beaten them all, the thousand-ruble as well as the one-ruble borzois.

She found Lori in the barn, raped and beaten, but still alive.

She'd tricked, cornered and beaten him one last time.

The French, poorly handled by Schrer and Srurier, were everywhere beaten, especially at Magnano (April 5) and Cassano (April 27).

The serious fact was that they had been beaten.

But at last his army was beaten; his men were scattered; and Tamerlane fled alone from the field of battle.

If they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don't suppose they are any the worse off.

Yes, he writes that the French were beaten at... at... what river is it?

In times of scarcity the Norse peasant-farmer uses the sweetish inner bark, beaten in a mortar and ground in his primitive mill with oats or barley, to eke out a scanty supply of meal, the mixture yielding a tolerably palatable though somewhat resinous substitute for his ordinary flad-brod.

Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

By the majority of Republicans, at least, he was considered to have cleared himself completely, and in the Republican national convention he missed by only twenty-eight votes the nomination for president, being finally beaten by a combination of the supporters of all the other candidates.

They attempted in 512 to take Bougie from the Spaniards, but were beaten off, and Arouj lost an arm, shattered by an arquebus shot.

More than once they had beaten him, and more than once they had made him drunk on champagne and Madeira, which he loved; and he knew more than one thing about each of them which would long ago have sent an ordinary man to Siberia.

It was a long time before the dragoons could extricate the bleeding youth, beaten almost to death.

Betsy read a notice on the Internet a day later that the culprit was beaten and in serious condition, after allegedly resisting arrest.

Dean turned away and like a beaten boxer long after the bell had sounded, slowly returned to his room.

If Arthur Atherton had been within a mile, Dean would have beaten him to death with his bare hands.

She was proud of what she'd done, how she'd beaten the White God.

Under their direction steady advance was made on the side which Bonaparte saw to be all important; a sortie of part of the British, Spanish and Neapolitan forces on the 30th of November was beaten back with loss, General O'Hara, their commander, being severely wounded and taken prisoner.

His general, a Christian named Kitboga, marched southwards to attack the Mamelukes of Egypt, but he was beaten by Bibars (who in the same year became sultan of Egypt), and Damascus fell into the hands of the Mamelukes.

Beaten in the war, the Genoese avenged themselves for their defeat by an alliance with the Palaeologi, which led to the loss of Constantinople by the Latins (1261), and to the collapse of the Latin empire after sixty years of infirm and precarious existence.

At length the Almoravides, whom he had several times beaten, marched against him in great force, inflicting a crushing defeat at Cuenca upon the Cid's army, under his favourite lieutenant, Alvar Fanez.

But with the Bohemian reinforcements he had still four corps in hand, and Napoleon, whose intelligence service in the difficult and intersected country had lamentably failed him, had weakened his army by detaching a portion of his force in pursuit of the beaten right wing, and against the archduke's communications.

No sooner had he wholly recovered than he hastened to, confront the emperor, reproaching him with his impiety; Diocletian ordered him to be instantly carried off and beaten to death with rods.

Moreover, the menace of attack on the Zulu side was a serious one, however able the Boers may have been to meet a foe who fought in the open, and who had been beaten by them in previous wars.

France was for a time beaten at the battles of St Quentin and Gravelines, and forced to make the Peace of Cateau Cambresis (April 2, 1 559).

When Napoleon had been beaten, France conceded to these allies by a secret article of the first Treaty of Paris of May 30, 1814, the disposition of all countries which Napoleon's fall had freed from French suzerainty.

When they came out onto the beaten highroad--polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight--the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.

He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict to finish the enemy and did this not to deceive anyone, but because he knew that the enemy was beaten, as everyone who had taken part in the battle knew it.

Others have disgraced themselves to the extent of disobeying sentinels and officers, and have abused and beaten them.

Dorokhov's report about Broussier's division, the guerrillas' reports of distress in Napoleon's army, rumors of preparations for leaving Moscow, all confirmed the supposition that the French army was beaten and preparing for flight.

But after a four days' halt the mob, with no maneuvers or plans, again began running along the beaten track, neither to the right nor to the left but along the old--the worst--road, through Krasnoe and Orsha.

General Botha was defeated at Pretoria East by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and at Georgetown - a Rand constituency - Mr Hull was beaten by Sir George Farrar.

For making tin-foil the metal is rolled into thin sheets, pieces of which are beaten out with a wooden mallet.

But meeting his old enemy Beauregard in one of the minister's rooms and making an offensive remark, he was waylaid by Beauregard some time after in a less privileged place and soundly beaten.

Reinforced by parts of the two Bulair divisions the Turks delivered vigorous counter-attacks on the 26th; but these were beaten off, and on that day and on the morrow the Australasian troops dug themselves in so thoroughly that by the night of the 27th-28th the position which they had taken Up, such as it was, was reasonably secure.