beat out

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B0138200 (bēt)v. beat, beat·en (bēt′n) or beat, beat·ing, beats v.tr.1. a. To strike repeatedly.b. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.c. To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.2. a. To strike against repeatedly and with force; pound: waves beating the shore.b. To flap (wings, for example).c. To strike so as to produce music or a signal: beat a drum.d. Music To mark or count (time or rhythm), especially with the hands or with a baton.3. a. To shape or break by repeated blows; forge: beat the glowing metal into a dagger.b. To make by pounding or trampling: beat a path through the jungle.4. To mix rapidly with a utensil: beat two eggs in a bowl.5. a. To defeat or subdue, as in a contest. See Synonyms at defeat.b. To force to withdraw or retreat: beat back the enemy.c. To dislodge from a position: I beat him down to a lower price.6. Informal To be superior to or better than: Riding beats walking.7. Slang To perplex or baffle: It beats me; I don't know the answer.8. Informal a. To avoid or counter the effects of, often by thinking ahead; circumvent: beat the traffic.b. To arrive or finish before (another): We beat you home by five minutes.c. To deprive, as by craft or ability: He beat me out of 20 dollars with his latest scheme.9. Physics To cause a reference wave to combine with (a second wave) so that the frequency of the second wave can be studied through time variations in the amplitude of the combination.v.intr.1. To inflict repeated blows.2. To pulsate; throb.3. a. To emit sound when struck: The gong beat thunderously.b. To strike a drum.4. To flap repeatedly.5. To shine or glare intensely: The sun beat down on us all day.6. To fall in torrents: The rain beat on the roof.7. To hunt through woods or underbrush in search of game.8. Nautical To sail upwind by tacking repeatedly.n.1. A stroke or blow, especially one that produces a sound or serves as a signal.2. A pulsation or throb.3. Physics A variation in the amplitude of a wave, especially that which results from the superpositioning of two or more waves of different frequencies. When sound waves are combined, the beat is heard as a pulsation in the sound.4. Music a. A steady succession of units of rhythm.b. A gesture used by a conductor to indicate such a unit.5. A pattern of stress that produces the rhythm of verse.6. A variable unit of time measuring a pause taken by an actor, as for dramatic effect.7. a. The area regularly covered by a reporter, a police officer, or a sentry: television's culture beat.b. The reporting of a news item obtained ahead of one's competitors.8. often Beat A member of the Beat Generation.adj.1. Informal Worn-out; fatigued.2. often Beat Of or relating to the Beat Generation.Phrasal Verbs: beat off1. To drive away.2. Vulgar Slang To masturbate. beat out Baseball To reach base safely on (a bunt or ground ball) when a putout is attempted.Idioms: beat all To be impressive or amazing. Often used in negative conditional constructions: If that doesn't beat all! beat a retreat To make a hasty withdrawal.beat around/about the bush To fail to confront a subject directly. beat it Slang To leave hurriedly. beat the bushes To make an exhaustive search.beat the drum/drums To give enthusiastic public support or promotion: a politician who beats the drum for liberalism. beat up on1. To attack physically.2. To criticize or scold harshly. to beat the band To an extreme degree.

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[Middle English beten, from Old English bēaten; see bhau- in Indo-European roots.]Synonyms: beat, batter¹, buffet², hammer, pound², pummel, thrash
These verbs mean to hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: beat each other with sticks; a ship battered by storm waves; buffeted him with her open palm; hammered his opponent with his fists; troops pounded by mortar fire; pummeled the bully soundly; dolphins thrashing the water with their tails. See Also Synonyms at defeat.

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Verb	1.	beat out - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"beat, vanquish, trounce, crush, shelloutscore, outpoint - score more points than one's opponentswalk over - beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship"eliminate - remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"worst, whip, mop up, pip, rack up - defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"whomp - beat overwhelminglyget the best, have the best, overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle - defeat disastrouslyget the jump - be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors"chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw - defeat someone through trickery or deceitoutsmart, outwit, overreach, circumvent, outfox, beat - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount - be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"surmount, master, overcome, subdue, get over - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"outfight - to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans"overmaster, overpower, overwhelm - overcome by superior forcecheckmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"immobilise, immobilize - make defenselessoutplay - excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
	2.	beat out - beat out a rhythm tap out, thump outbeat - indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"

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