(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

1. To attack verbally with harsh criticism; SYN. belabour.
2. To work at or to absurd length; SYN. belabour.

To beat soundly; SYN. belabor.

1. To punish; to chastise by blows; to chasten.
2. To chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
3. To emend; to correct.
4. Punish; reprove; criticize severely.

1. To beat severely
2. To berate critically
3. To defeat decisively
4. Drum, stamp

To defeat soundly and utterly.

1. To engage in whale fishing.
2. To hunt for whales.
3. To strike or hit vigorously
4. To defeat soundly

1. To pull or whip out
2. Beat, strike
3. To defeat totally

1. To subject to thorough examination, study, or treatment
2. To do over; rework
3. To beat up or manhandle with thoroughness