Word Finder - beating

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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.

synonyms

• 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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The action by which someone or something is beaten.

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secret beatings of prisoners

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A heavy defeat or setback.

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The pulsation of the heart.

Her heart was beating wildly.

Underneath that distant façade was a beating heart.

She heard the sound of someone beating a punching bag.

He was practically beating his chest.

Jackson heard her heart beating.

He was beating out his demons, the way he did every day.

I can't figure out how they're beating us.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a cacophony of squawks and wings beating against the chicken coop walls.

Lana slept until Elise woke her for breakfast by beating on her door in the morning.

Beating at the door registered distantly in his thoughts.

She scowled down at him, her heart beating a mile a minute.

I figured everybody would be really mad and I'd get a beating for sure.

Her heart was beating wildly as she cowered against one of the benches.

You're dressed for a beating.

The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they did not want or could not carry away with them.

Her headache was returning, her heart beating so fast she knew she'd pass out if she didn't calm down.

Kind of beating the horse to the front of the pack a bit early in the race, isn't she?

Why waste time beating around the bush?

Till the spring of 327 Alexander was moving to and fro in Bactria and Sogdiana, beating down the recurrent rebellions and planting Greek cities.

Her heart was beating so wildly she was finally forced to gasp for air.

Her heart was beating overtime when one of his hands slid to her neck.

In the morning, her father really would kill him, and she'd be lucky to escape with another beating.

Ten cowardly ruffians I saw upon one unarmed man, beating him with their clubs, till they felled him to the ground.

The drums were beating, the fifes were playing.

With bated breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was known).

On the square in front of the Bazaar were drummers beating the muster call.

She hadn't cried in years, unless it was out of pain from a particularly bad beating.

Two bowed his head, awaiting a beating that never came.

He's pretty set on beating your butt for sheriff.

Heart beating fast, she descended the stairs in the marble foyer, listening.

Her heart was beating fast, her palms sweaty.

They began beating against their cell walls, and the lights flickered again.

Kiki didn't knock the door down as he could, instead beating loudly enough for the sound to drift down the road.

The beating of the rotators died, replaced by creaking and scraping of metal.

The sun was beating down on me as I sat on the stoop waiting for Mrs. Armstrong to pick me up.

That's only one of the details I've got to work on while I'm beating my body into shape over the next two weeks.

Her heart resumed beating with a painful surge when Justin's attention returned to Denton.

Her heart was beating fast.

He'd never lost this game, and it amused him to no end that the woman in the seat beside him was beating him every night.

It is pleasant to think that there is foundation for the familiar story of Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe as the Armada was beating up Channel, and finishing his game before tackling the Spaniards.

Even in casual amours these class laws were invariably observed, and the young man or woman who defied them was punished, he with death, she with spearing or beating.

After successfully observing the transit from the island of Tahiti, or Otaheite, as Cook wrote it, the " Endeavour's " head was turned south, and then north-west, beating about the Pacific in search of the eastern coast of the great continent whose western shores had been so long known to the Dutch.

The sistrum is played also by beating it with a metal stick.

In the large playroom of the house at Ajaccio, while the others amused themselves with ordinary games, Napoleon delighted most in beating a drum and wielding a sword.

Chaka between 1818 and 1820 ravaged the whole of what is now known as Natal, and after beating his foes in battle, butchered the women, children and old men, incorporating the young men in his impis.

Well concealed in skilfully constructed entrenchments that were excavated on terrain overlooking the invader's lines, the Turkish contingents holding the different fronts could fairly calculate upon beating off any hostile attack unless their adversaries should be heavily reinforced.

Elsewhere we see the victorious prince beating down a vanquished enemy, and superintending the execution of other prisoners who are being sacrificed to the gods, while in one curious scene he is striking with his mace a sort of wicker-work cage filled with naked men.

But he had no sooner mounted the steps leading to the entrance than the crowd, which had followed him all the way beating him with sticks and umbrellas, made a rush at him, knocked him down, and kicked and trampled him to death.

The Democratic party nominated the one available Democrat who had the smallest chance of beating him - Horatio Seymour, lately governor of New York, an excellent statesman, but at that time hopeless as a candidate because of his attitude during the war.

A procesi resembling maze-gane, but less fortuitous, is shibuichi-dshi (combined shibuichi), which involves beating together two kinds of shibuichi and then adding a third variety, after which the details of the picture are I worked in as in the case of maze-gane.