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1. To force or drive downward by beating or hammering (cf. 15).
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2. To batter or break down by heavy blows, to demolish, knock down (cf. 17).
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3. figurative. To overthrow (an institution, opinion, etc.).
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4. To force down (a price) by haggling (cf. 18). With these cf. abate n.
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5. intransitive. To come down with violence, like rain blown by the wind, the sun's rays, etc. (cf. 6).
6. (see 19).
7. To reduce by beating (cf. 22).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat down or away
to beat downc1540
bate1601
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 180 The knightes..Brentyn and betyn doun all the big houses.
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii And fynally to beate downe Satan vnder our fete.
1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Salvation, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 30 This doctrine..beateth down the vain glory of man.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xii. 50 Fightes he to beate downe the Gates.
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 28 Democracie hath beene bette doune, and Monarchie established.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 63 The enemie with great slaughter still beaten downe.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 8 Nov. (1974) VIII. 522 To alter my office by beating down the wall and making me a fayre window..there.
1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) IV. 413 Thus monopoly will beat down prices.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. xvii. 280 One whole side of the castle had been beaten down.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 107 For the purpose of keeping the sea from beating down.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. xi. 273 The fields that were so sadly beaten down a little while ago are now standing in fine yellow shocks.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 113 The sun..beat down upon us with intense force.
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to beat down
a. transitive. To force or impel (a thing) by striking, hammering, etc. With the direction expressed, as to beat down, to beat out of, or to beat into (a position or thing).
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 110 He gaue me a Iewell th' other day, and now hee has beate it out of my hat. View more context for this quotation
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God xvi. 100 When we beat the dust out of a suite.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 52 The Blow..beat the Breath as it were quite out of my Body.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §238 The stone..was then lowered..and beat down with a heavy wooden maul.
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18. to beat the price, to beat the market, to beat the bargain: to endeavour to bring down the price, to chaffer for the lowest terms; to cheapen; = abate v.1, or bate v.2 Now only in beat down: see to beat down 4 at Phrasal verbs.
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society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)]
bargain1525
hucka1529
hucker1548
dodge1568
blockc1570
pelt1579
hack1587
haggle1589
to beat the bargain1591
to beat the market1591
huckster1593
niffera1598
badger1600
scotch1601
palter1611
cheapen1620
higgle1633
tig-tag1643
huckle1644
chaffer1693
chaffer1725
dicker1797
niffer1815
Jew1825
hacker1833
banter1835
higgle-haggle1841
hondle1921
wheel and deal1961
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)]
to beat the price1591
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price)
weaken1530
mitigate1542
abase1551
fall1564
to beat the price1591
to bring down1600
to fetch down1841
degrade1844
to roll back1942
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price) > cause to decline
to beat the price1591
to run down1699
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A3 He bet the prise of him, bargained, & bought him.
1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 84 The broaker that beateth the price with him that selleth.
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) i. lxix. 29 How loth was righteous Abraham to cease, To Beat the price of lustful Sodoms peace!
1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 135 To beate the bargaine of peace to a lower rate.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 636 How low did Abraham beat the Market for Sodoms preservation?
1667 S. Pepys Diary 14 Aug. (1974) VIII. 385 With a little beating the bargain, we came to a perfect agreement.
1785 C. Burney in S. Parr Wks. VII. 398 I have been beating the market for them.
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