[
US
/ˈbit/
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[ UK /bˈiːt/ ]
[ UK /bˈiːt/ ]
VERB
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wear out completely
I'm beat
He was all washed up after the exam
This kind of work exhausts me -
indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
Beat the rhythm -
move rhythmically
Her heart was beating fast -
move with a thrashing motion
The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky
The bird flapped its wings -
avoid paying
beat the subway fare -
be a mystery or bewildering to
Got me--I don't know the answer!
This beats me!
a vexing problem
This question really stuck me -
glare or strike with great intensity
The sun was beating down on us -
sail with much tacking or with difficulty
The boat beat in the strong wind -
produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
beat the drum -
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night
The teacher used to beat the students -
make a rhythmic sound
The drums beat all night
Rain drummed against the windshield -
shape by beating
beat swords into ploughshares -
move with a flapping motion
The bird's wings were flapping -
make a sound like a clock or a timer
the grandfather clock beat midnight
the clocks were ticking -
make by pounding or trampling
beat a path through the forest -
strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
beat one's breast
beat one's foot rhythmically -
be superior
Reading beats watching television
This sure beats work! -
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
the city pulsated with music and excitement -
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
We beat the competition
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game -
stir vigorously
beat the cream
beat the egg whites -
beat through cleverness and wit
She outfoxed her competitors
I beat the traffic -
hit repeatedly
beat on the door
beat the table with his shoe - strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
NOUN
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a stroke or blow
the signal was two beats on the steam pipe - a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
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the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
he could feel the beat of her heart - a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
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the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
the conductor set the beat
the piece has a fast rhythm -
a regular rate of repetition
the cox raised the beat -
a regular route for a sentry or policeman
in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
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the sound of stroke or blow
he heard the beat of a drum
ADJECTIVE
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very tired
I'm dead after that long trip
so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
was all in at the end of the day
bushed after all that exercise
How To Use beat In A Sentence
- Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
- And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
- Rihanna is real clingy, a bit two clingy saying he cant talk to other women, even though there just friends! but he is also in the wrong for doing it!!!!! like ye dnt go round beatin up women no matter how bad they are! gooddd like … buh i LOVE chris brown so im natt sayn nethn! Chris Brown Rihanna Break-Up Following Alleged Assault
- The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
- High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
- Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
- They were comprehensively beaten in the final.
- Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
- He wanted to scream and shout, beat the wall and call down the forces of destruction.
- Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
