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"beat" Meaning in English

1. to be a mystery or bewildering to

Part of speech : verb

Example : The magic trick beats me!

Synonyms

get , pose , stick , baffle , puzzle , gravel , stupefy , perplex , mystify , vex , bewilder , flummox , nonplus , amaze , dumbfound

2. to come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Part of speech : verb

Example : We beat everyone we played in the tennis doubles championship.

Synonyms

crush , shell , trounce , beat out , vanquish

3. to beat through cleverness and wit

Part of speech : verb

Example : I beat the traffic by taking a shortcut.

Synonyms

circumvent , outwit , overreach , outsmart , outfox

4. to wear out completely

Part of speech : verb

Example : I beat that car.

Synonyms

exhaust , tucker , wash up , tucker out

5. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each heart cycle

Part of speech : noun

Example : I could feel the beat of your heart.

Synonyms

heartbeat , pulse , pulsation

6. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

Part of speech : noun

Synonyms

rhythm , musical rhythm

7. to give a beating to

Part of speech : verb

Example : The attacker beat me when I refused to hand over my wallet.

Synonyms

work over , beat up

8. to move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

Part of speech : verb

Example : Just beat to the music, yo!

Synonyms

quiver , pulsate

9. to move rhythmically

Part of speech : verb

Example : My heart was beating fast.

Synonyms

thump , pound

10. to make a rhythmic sound

Part of speech : verb

Example : I beat the drum to the rhythm of my favorite song.

Synonyms

drum , thrum

11. very tired

Part of speech : adjective

Synonyms

drained

12. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Part of speech : noun

Synonyms

measure

13. a regular route for a sentry or policeman

Part of speech : noun

Example : In the old days, a policeman walked a beat and knew all of the names of the folks in the neighborhood.

Synonyms

round

14. a member of the beat generation

Part of speech : noun

Synonyms

beatnik

15. to stir vigorously

Part of speech : verb

Example : I beat the egg whites.

Synonyms

scramble

16. to avoid paying

Part of speech : verb

Example : The criminal jumped over the turnstiles in order to beat the subway fare.

Synonyms

bunk

17. the act of beating to windward

Part of speech : noun

18. a stroke or blow

Part of speech : noun

Example : the signal was two beats on the steam pipe

19. a regular rate of repetition

Part of speech : noun

Example : the cox raised the beat

20. the sound of stroke or blow

Part of speech : noun

Example : I heard the beat of a drum.

21. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies

Part of speech : noun

22. to hit repeatedly

Part of speech : verb

Example : They beat on the door.

23. to strike a part of one's own body repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music

Part of speech : verb

Example : I beat my breast in anger.

24. to shape by beating

Part of speech : verb

Example : The blacksmith beat the steel into the ornamenta shapes for the fence.

25. to make by pounding or trampling

Part of speech : verb

Example : They deer beat a path through the forest.

26. to sail with much tacking or with difficulty

Part of speech : verb

Example : The boat beat in the strong wind.

27. to glare or strike with great intensity

Part of speech : verb

Example : The sun was beating down on us.

28. to be superior

Part of speech : verb

Example : Reading beats watching television.

Translation for "beat"

beat meaning in Spanish : golpear

beat meaning in German : schlagen

beat meaning in Japanese : ビート

beat meaning in Turkish : dövmek

beat meaning in Chinese : 击败

beat meaning in Arabic : تغلب

beat meaning in Polish : bić

beat meaning in Hindi : हराना

beat meaning in French : battre

beat meaning in Russian : бить

beat meaning in Tamil : அடிக்க

beat meaning in Telugu : ఓడించింది

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