beat sth out
— phrasal verb with beat uk/biːt/us/biːt/verb beat, beaten or US also beat
(MUSIC)
to make sounds that have a particular rhythm by hitting something such as a drum:
The drummer beat out a steady rhythm while we marched.
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Playing music
- accompaniment
- accompany
- busk
- chop
- conduct
- fiddle
- fingering
- improvisation
- interpreter
- jam
- music
- perform
- raise the roof idiom
- serenade
- sight-read
- strike
- strum
- swell
- tap sth out
- tune
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(FIRE)
to make a fire go out by hitting it repeatedly with an object, such as a large piece of cloth:
She beat the flames out with her bare hands.
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Stopping fires
- beat
- blow
- blow (sth) out
- damp
- damp sth down
- douse
- extinguish
- go
- go out
- gutter
- quench
- smother
- snuff
- snuff sth out
- sprinkler
- sprinkler system
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