ETYM Old Eng. baschen, baissen. Related to Abash.
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
To coat (food) with batter for frying.
To give a receding upward slope to (as a wall)
(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 make a strident sound; SYN. blare.
2. To use explosives on; SYN. strafe, shell.
ETYM Cf. OSw. lägga to place, strike, prick.
To pass the tongue over; SYN. lap.
1. To grind with a mill
2. To move about in a confused manner; SYN. mill about, mill around.
3. To groove or rib the edge of a coin.
4. To roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.
1. chiefly dialect; beat, scourge
2. dialect; singe, scorch
3. Burn superficially or lightly
1. To beat the seeds out of a grain; in agriculture; SYN. thresh.
2. To give a thrashing to; beat hard; SYN. thresh, lam, flail.
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 punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog.
To flog; to be flogged.
1. To get rid of, destroy, or kill especially with or as if with sudden force.
2. To hit with or as if with a sudden concentrated application of force or energy.
3. To irradiate especially with microwaves.
4. To propel suddenly or speedily.
5. To transport instantaneously.
6. To avoid watching (as a television commercial) by changing channels especially with a remote control or by fast-forwarding a videotape.
7. To move with speed or force.
8. To change television channels using a remote control.