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    Beat , v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten ; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. beátan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. bōzan. 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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    Beaten , a.
    1.  Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. “A broad and beaten way.” Milton. “Beaten gold.” Shak. “off the beaten track.”
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    2. Vanquished; defeated; conquered; baffled.
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    3. Exhausted; tired out.
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    4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
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    5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.]
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