(Homonym: beet).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: beat, beaten).
1. To be superior.
2. To come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; SYN. beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish.
3. To give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; SYN. beat up.
4. To glare or strike with great intensity.
5. To hit repeatedly.
6. To indicate by beating; as with the fingers or drumsticks.
7. To make by pounding or trampling.
8. To move rhythmically; SYN. pound, thump.
9. To move with a flapping motion; SYN. flap.
10. To move with a thrashing motion; SYN. flap.
11. To produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.
12. To sail with much tacking or with difficulty.
13. To shape by beating.
14. To stir vigorously; SYN. scramble.
15. To strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music. + prikaži više

To gather; SYN. drum up, rally.

To get the better of; to beat (in a contest).

1. To be agitated; of liquids; SYN. boil, moil, roil.
2. To stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter.

To strike violently and repeatedly; SYN. baste, batter.

1. To add cream to one's coffee, for example.
2. To make cream by beating.
3. To put on cream, as on one's face or body.

1. To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to triumph over.
2. To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
3. To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope.
4. To resist with success.

ETYM Cf. OSw. lägga to place, strike, prick.
To pass the tongue over; SYN. lap.

1. To cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; SYN. bombard.
2. Hurl, throw
3. To beat or dash repeatedly against
4. To deliver a succession of blows or missiles
5. To beat incessantly
6. To move rapidly and vigorously; hurry

1. To strike heavy blows; to beat
2. To beat heavily and quickly
3. To make a jarring sensation, as in running.

1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw
2. To labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

To pulsate or pound with abnormal force; SYN. pound.

1. To cut the top off; SYN. pinch.
2. To do something better than someone

Said of money: to make coins by stamping them in metal; to mint.
Said of phrases or words: to invent a phrase or word; to create a neologism.