(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.
1. To fool or dupe.
2. (Old) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
ETYM Vulgar Slang, u. s.
(Homonym: nock).
1. To deliver a sharp blow or push ; SYN. strike hard.
2. To rap with the knuckles.
1. To throb or move rhythmically; vibrate
2. To exhibit a pulse or pulsation; beat
3. To expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; SYN. throb, pulse.
(Homonym: wrap).
1. To perform rap music.
2. To strike sharply; SYN. knap.
3. To talk volubly.
To bang, thump.