1. to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
2. to dash against: rain beating the trees.
3. to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings.
4. to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo.
5. to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well.
6. to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares.
7. to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him.
8. to make (a path) by repeated treading.
9. to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims viciously before robbing them.
10. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.
11. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.
12. to overcome in a contest; defeat.
13. to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda.
14. to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line.
15. to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job.
16. to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand.
17. to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values.
18. to swindle; cheat (often followed by out): He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal.
19. to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).
20. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.

21. to strike repeated blows; pound.
22. to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster.
23. to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on): rain beating against the windows.
24. to resound under blows, as a drum.
25. to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat?
26. to play, as on a drum.
27. to scour cover for game.
28. to make a beat or beats.
29. (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping: This cream won't beat.
30. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.

31. a stroke or blow.
32. the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums.
33. a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute.
34. the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.
35. one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat.
36. Music.
• the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music.
• a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.
37. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone.
38. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.
39. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations.
40. Journalism.
• the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals.
• the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering.
41. a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi.
42. beatnik.

43. exhausted; worn out.
44. of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.

45. beat about,
• to search through; scour: After beating about for several hours, he turned up the missing papers.
• to tack into the wind.
46. to force back; compel to withdraw: to beat back an attacker.
47. beat down,
• to bring into subjection; subdue.
• to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something: His first price was too high, so we tried to beat him down.
48. beat off,
• to ward off; repulse: We had to beat off clouds of mosquitoes.
• to masturbate.
49. beat out,
• to defeat; win or be chosen over: to beat out the competition.
• to cut (a mortise).
• to produce hurriedly, especially by writing or typing: There are three days left to beat out the first draft of the novel.
• (of a hitter) to make (an infield ground ball or bunt) into a hit: He beat out a weak grounder to third.
50. beat up,
• to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: A gang of toughs beat him up on the way home from school. In the third round the champion really began to beat up on the challenger.
• to find or gather; scare up: I'll beat up some lunch for us while you make out the shopping list.

51. to surpass anything of a similar nature, especially in an astonishing or outrageous way: The way he came in here and ordered us around beats all!
52. retreat (def. 12).
53. bush¹ (def. 16).
54. to depart; go away: He was pestering me, so I told him to beat it.
55. to make repeated futile attempts.
56. rap¹ (def. 17).
57. outside of one's routine, general knowledge, or range of experience: He protested that nonobjective art was off his beat.
58. in the correct rhythm or tempo: By the end of the number they were all finally playing on the beat.

1. to strike with or as if with a series of violent blows; dash or pound repeatedly (against)
2. to punish by striking; flog
3. to move or cause to move up and down; flap
4. to throb rhythmically; pulsate
5. to make (one's way) by or as if by blows
6. to stir or whisk (an ingredient or mixture) vigorously
7. to shape, make thin, or flatten (a piece of metal) by repeated blows
8. to indicate (time) by the motion of one's hand, baton, etc, or by the action of a metronome
9. to produce (a sound or signal) by or as if by striking a drum
10. to sound or cause to sound, by or as if by beating
11. to overcome (an opponent) in a contest, battle, etc
12. to drive, push, or thrust
13. to arrive or finish before (someone or something); anticipate or forestall
14. to form (a path or track) by repeatedly walking or riding over it
15. to scour (woodlands, coverts, or undergrowth) so as to rouse game for shooting
16. to puzzle or baffle
17. (of sounds or electrical signals) to combine and produce a pulsating sound or signal
18. to steer a sailing vessel as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
19. to cheat or defraud
20. to avoid the point at issue; prevaricate
21. to withdraw or depart in haste
22. to go away
23. beat one's breast See breast (def. 10)
24. to kill by knocking severely about the head
25. to reach a place or achieve an objective before someone else
26. (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
27. an expression of utter amazement or surprise

28. a stroke or blow
29. the sound made by a stroke or blow
30. a regular sound or stroke; throb
• an assigned or habitual round or route, as of a policeman or sentry
• (as modifier)
32. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music, usually grouped in twos, threes, or fours
• pop or rock music characterized by a heavy rhythmic beat
• (as modifier)
34. the low regular frequency produced by combining two sounds or electrical signals that have similar frequencies
35. the impulse given to the balance wheel by the action of the escapement
36. the accent, stress, or ictus in a metrical foot
37. a course that steers a sailing vessel as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
• the act of scouring for game by beating
• the organized scouring of a particular woodland so as to rouse the game in it
• the woodland where game is so roused
39. short for beatnik
40. a sharp tap with one's blade on an opponent's blade to deflect it
41. of, characterized by, or relating to the Beat Generation

42. totally exhausted

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