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Type Words
Synonyms round
Type of route, itinerary, path


in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name.
Type Words
Synonyms beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Type of overcome, defeat, get the better of
Has types scoop, mate, eliminate, master, lick, jockey, exceed, rout, outscore, outpoint, immobilize, trump, walk over, immobilise, outplay, rack up, have the best, pip, get the jump, outperform, overcome, get the best, get over, outmatch, surpass, worst, outgo, whomp, bat, surmount, best, spreadeagle, cheat, checkmate, chicane, outflank, chouse, spread-eagle, thrash, outstrip, clobber, outfight, outdo, subdue, cream, whip, overpower, overmaster, overwhelm, shaft, screw, drub, mop up
Verb group circumvent, outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox
Derivation beatable, beating


Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship.
We beat the competition.
Type Words
Synonyms drum, thrum
Type of sound, go


The drums beat all night.
Type Words
Synonyms bunk
Type of chisel, cheat, rip off


beat the subway fare.
Type Words
Synonyms pound, thump
Type of move
Has types pulsate, flap, throb, palpitate, thrash, pulse, flutter


Her heart was beating fast.
Type Words
Synonyms amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
Type of bedevil, fuddle, fox, confuse, confound, throw, discombobulate, befuddle
Has types stump, mix up, riddle, escape, elude


This beats me!.
Type Words
Synonyms exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up
Type of tire, fag out, fag, outwear, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, jade, fatigue, tire out
Has types kill, play, frazzle


I'm beat.
Type Words
Synonyms tick, ticktack, ticktock
Type of go, sound


the grandfather clock beat midnight.
Type Words
Synonyms heartbeat, pulsation, pulse
Type of periodic event, recurrent event
Has types diastole, throb, pounding, throbbing, systole


he could feel the beat of her heart.
Type Words
Synonyms flap
Type of move
Has types thresh, clap, flail
Verb group flap
Type Words
Synonyms musical rhythm, rhythm
Type of musical time
Has types upbeat, backbeat, offbeat, downbeat, syncopation


the conductor set the beat.
Type Words
Synonyms all in, bushed, dead


so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere.
Type Words
Synonyms pulsate, quiver
Type of move
Verb group pulse, pulsate, throb
Type Words
Synonyms beatnik
Type of recusant, nonconformist
Type Words
Synonyms cadence, measure, meter, metre
Type of poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern
Has types foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, common meter, common measure, catalexis, scansion
Type Words
Synonyms beat up, work over
Has types flog, baste, strap, batter, spank, thrash, belabor, belabour, cane, soak, clobber, slash, thresh, rough up, flail, trounce, welt, pistol-whip, kayo, knock cold, knock out, lam, lambast, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, whip, paddle, strong-arm
Derivation beating


Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night.
The teacher used to beat the students.
Type Words
Synonyms flap
Type of move, displace
Has types bate, clap, flutter
Verb group flap


The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky.
Type Words
Synonyms circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach
Type of outstrip, exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, surpass, outperform, surmount
Verb group crush, beat out, trounce, vanquish, shell
Derivation beatable


I beat the traffic.
Type Words
Synonyms scramble
Type of stir up, raise up, disturb, commove, shake up, vex, agitate
Has types cream, whisk, whip
Derivation beater


beat the egg whites.
beat the cream.
Type Words
Type of pace, rate


the cox raised the beat.
Type Words
Type of vibration, oscillation
Type Words
Type of stroke


the signal was two beats on the steam pipe.
Type Words
Type of be


Reading beats watching television.
This sure beats work!.
Type Words
Type of glare


The sun was beating down on us.
Type Words
Type of strike
Has types deck, coldcock, thresh, knock down, paste, hammer, whang, full, bastinado, floor, beetle, dump, thrash
Derivation beater


beat on the door.
beat the table with his shoe.
Type Words
Has types thump out, tap out, beat out
Verb group drum, thump, thrum, pound
Type Words
Type of create, make


beat a path through the forest.
Type Words
Type of play


beat the drum.
Type Words
Type of sail


The boat beat in the strong wind.
Type Words
Type of form, mould, mold, forge, shape, work
Has types hammer, forge


beat swords into ploughshares.
Type Words
Type of strike


beat one's breast.
beat one's foot rhythmically.
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Type of sailing
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Type of sound


he heard the beat of a drum.

Examples of beat

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We had to beat Green Bay in the last game of the season to go into the playoffs.
From the dailyherald.com
Add the lemon juice and beat on medium-high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes.
From the dailyherald.com
Canada is out of it and Jamaica needs to beat Canada by as many goals as it can.
From the stltoday.com
The Mets get beat up for a lot of transgressions around here, and rightfully so.
From the newsday.com
Not only did New York beat Atlanta, 9-5, but Philadelphia lost to Florida, 14-8.
From the newsday.com
Toronto kept pace with eighth-place Buffalo, which beat Atlanta 8-2 on Saturday.
From the sacbee.com
She told officers that Buck beat her and attempted to drown her, documents said.
From the thenewstribune.com
He showed steady improvement but still beat just one ranked opponent all season.
From the omaha.com
Earnings and sales beat the averages of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
From the bloomberg.com
More examples
  • A regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
  • All in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
  • 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"
  • Pulse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
  • 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"
  • Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time. ...
  • Beat is a Japanese movie released in Japan in 1998, directed by Amon Miyamoto, set in the 60's in Okinawa. It was screened at critics week at the 1998 Venice film festival.
  • Beat is an American made movie, produced in 2000, concerning the part of the life of writer William S. Burroughs that he spent with his wife, the late Joan Vollmer.