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Beat (bēt), 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 (bētˈ'n; 95), 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.] Beau. & Fl.
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