(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.
To overcome by conquest
1. To gain or acquire by force of arms; subjugate
2. To overcome by force of arms; vanquish
3. To gain mastery over or win by overcoming obstacles or opposition
4. To overcome by mental or moral power; surmount
5. To be victorious
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.
To confuse, embarrass; thwart; defeat in battle.