Beating




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Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat,
Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS.
be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st
Butt, Button.]

1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to
beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat
grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and
sugar; to beat a drum.
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Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
--Ex. xxx. 36.
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They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.
xxxix. 3.
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2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
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3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the
noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of
rousing game.
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To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.
--Prior.
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4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
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A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.
--Milton.
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5. To tread, as a path.
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Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.
--Blackmore.
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6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,
etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be
superior to.
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He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
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For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.
Arnold.
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7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with
out. [Colloq.]
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8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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Why should any one . . . beat his head about the
Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
--Locke.
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9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound
by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,
a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.
See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
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10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a
person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
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11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment);
as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax
by buying out of state.
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To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower
price; to force down. [Colloq.]

To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition.

To beat off, to repel or drive back.

To beat out, to extend by hammering.

To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give
it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to
this day." --South.

To beat the dust. (Man.)
(a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a
horse.
(b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.

To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.

To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering
agitation.

To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the
motion of the hand or foot.

To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to
beat up an enemy's quarters.
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Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;
baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;
defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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Beating \Beat"ing\, n.

1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or
chastisement by blows.
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2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
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3. (Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
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4. (Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks
in zigzag direction.
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beating
n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating,
whipping]

2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
[syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing,
lacing, trouncing, whacking]
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beating [biːtiŋ]
ausklopfend; durchhauen; schlagend

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beating

beverés
csapkodás
dobogás
dobogó
elfenekelés
elpáholás
felhajtás
hajtás
hirig
kudarc
lavírozás
sulykolás
szárnycsapkodás
szívdobogás
szívverés
vereség
verés
zuhogó
ütleg
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beating

Kreuzen n
beating

ausklopfend; klofend
beating

durchhauen
beating

schlagend
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216 Moby Thesaurus words for "beating":
Waterloo, abrasion, alternate, arrhythmia, atomization, attrition,
bang, barrage, bash, bastinado, basting, bat, battery, beat, belt,
belting, biff, blow, bonk, brecciation, buffeting, cadenced,
cadent, caning, chop, circling, clicking, clip, clout, clubbing,
clump, collapse, comminution, conquering, conquest,
corporal punishment, cowhiding, crack, crash, crumbling, crushing,
cudgeling, cut, cyclic, dance, dash, deathblow, debacle,
defeasance, defeat, destruction, detrition, dig, dint,
disintegration, downfall, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music,
drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, epochal, even, every other, failure,
fall, flagellation, flailing, flap, flicker, flit, flitter,
flogging, flop, flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, fusillade,
fustigation, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding,
heartbeat, heartthrob, hiding, hit, horsewhipping, in numbers,
in rhythm, intermittent, isochronal, jab, knock, lacing,
lambasting, lashing, lathering, levigation, lick, licking, mashing,
mastery, measured, metric, metronomic, oscillatory, overcoming,
overthrow, overturn, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter,
pelt, periodical, pistol-whipping, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk,
poke, pound, pounding, powdering, pulsatile, pulsating, pulsation,
pulsative, pulsatory, pulse, pulsing, punch, quietus, quiver, rap,
rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rawhiding,
reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythm, rhythmic, roll, rotary,
rout, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, ruin, scourging, seasonal, serial,
shake, shellacking, shredding, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash,
smashing, sock, spanking, spatter, spattering, splutter,
spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, steady, strapping,
stripes, stroke, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swat, swing,
swingeing, swipe, switching, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, thrashing,
throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack,
ticking, tom-tom, trimming, trituration, trouncing, truncheoning,
undoing, undulant, undulatory, vanquishment, wavelike, waver,
whack, wheeling, whipping, whop, yerk



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