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[1] the act of a person or thing that beats, as to punish, clean, mix, etc.: Give the rug a good beating.
[2] a defeat or reverse; loss; setback: Several stocks took a beating in the market today.
[3] pulsation; throbbing: the beating of her heart.
[4] to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
[5] to dash against: rain beating the trees.
[6] to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings.
[7] to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo.
[8] to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well.
[9] to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares.
[10] to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him.
[11] to make (a path) by repeated treading.
[12] to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims viciously before robbing them.
[13] Music . to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.
[14] Hunting . to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.
[15] to overcome in a contest; defeat.
[16] to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda.
[17] to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line.
[18] to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job.
[19] to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand.
[20] to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values.
[21] Slang . to swindle; cheat (often followed by out ): He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal.
[22] to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).
[23] Textiles . to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.
[24] to strike repeated blows; pound.
[25] to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster.
[26] to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on ): rain beating against the windows.
[27] to resound under blows, as a drum.
[28] to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat?
[29] to play, as on a drum.
[30] to scour cover for game.
[31] Physics . to make a beat or beats.
[32] (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping: This cream won't beat.
[33] Nautical . to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.
[34] a stroke or blow.
[35] the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums.
[36] a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute.
[37] the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.
[38] one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat.
[39] Music . the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.
[40] Theater . a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone.
[41] Prosody . the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.
[42] Physics . a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations.
[43] Journalism . the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals. Compare exclusive(def 13) , scoop(def 9) . Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering.
[44] a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi.
[45] (often initial capital letter ) Informal . beatnik.
[46] Informal . exhausted; worn out.
[47] (often initial capital letter ) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.
[48] beat about , to search through; scour: After beating about for several hours, he turned up the missing papers. Nautical . to tack into the wind.
[49] beat back , to force back; compel to withdraw: to beat back an attacker.
[50] beat down , to bring into subjection; subdue. Informal . to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something: His first price was too high, so we tried to beat him down.
[51] beat off , to ward off; repulse: We had to beat off clouds of mosquitoes. Slang : Vulgar . to masturbate.
[52] beat out , Informal . to defeat; win or be chosen over: to beat out the competition. Carpentry . to cut (a mortise). to produce hurriedly, especially by writing or typing: There are three days left to beat out the first draft of the novel. Baseball . (of a hitter) to make (an infield ground ball or bunt) into a hit: He beat out a weak grounder to third.
[53] beat up , Also beat up on . to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: A gang of toughs beat him up on the way home from school. In the third round the champion really began to beat up on the challenger. British Informal . to find or gather; scare up: I'll beat up some lunch for us while you make out the shopping list.
[54] a whipping or thrashing, as in punishment
[55] a defeat or setback
[56] take some beating or take a lot of beating to be difficult to improve upon
[57] (when intr, often foll by against, on , etc ) to strike with or as if with a series of violent blows; dash or pound repeatedly (against)
[58] (tr) to punish by striking; flog
[59] to move or cause to move up and down; flap the bird beat its wings heavily
[60] (intr) to throb rhythmically; pulsate her heart beat fast
[61] (tr) to make (one's way) by or as if by blows she beat her way out of the crowd
[62] (tr sometimes foll by up ) cookery to stir or whisk (an ingredient or mixture) vigorously
[63] (tr sometimes foll by out ) to shape, make thin, or flatten (a piece of metal) by repeated blows
[64] (tr) music to indicate (time) by the motion of one's hand, baton, etc, or by the action of a metronome
[65] (when tr , sometimes foll by out ) to produce (a sound or signal) by or as if by striking a drum
[66] to sound or cause to sound, by or as if by beating beat the drums!
[67] to overcome (an opponent) in a contest, battle, etc
[68] (tr ; often foll by back, down, off etc ) to drive, push, or thrust
[69] (tr) to arrive or finish before (someone or something); anticipate or forestall they set off early to beat the rush hour
[70] (tr) to form (a path or track) by repeatedly walking or riding over it
[71] to scour (woodlands, coverts, or undergrowth) so as to rouse game for shooting
[72] (tr) slang to puzzle or baffle it beats me how he can do that
[73] (intr) physics (of sounds or electrical signals) to combine and produce a pulsating sound or signal
[74] (intr) nautical to steer a sailing vessel as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
[75] (tr) slang , mainly US to cheat or defraud he beat his brother out of the inheritance
[76] beat about the bush to avoid the point at issue; prevaricate
[77] beat a retreat to withdraw or depart in haste
[78] beat it slang (often imperative) to go away
[79] beat one's breast See breast (def. 10)
[80] beat someone's brains out slang to kill by knocking severely about the head
[81] beat someone to it informal to reach a place or achieve an objective before someone else
[82] beat the bounds British (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
[83] can you beat it? or can you beat that? slang an expression of utter amazement or surprise
[84] a stroke or blow
[85] the sound made by a stroke or blow
[86] a regular sound or stroke; throb
[87] an assigned or habitual round or route, as of a policeman or sentry (as modifier ) beat police officers
[88] the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music, usually grouped in twos, threes, or fours
[89] pop or rock music characterized by a heavy rhythmic beat (as modifier ) a beat group
[90] physics the low regular frequency produced by combining two sounds or electrical signals that have similar frequencies
[91] horology the impulse given to the balance wheel by the action of the escapement
[92] prosody the accent, stress, or ictus in a metrical foot
[93] nautical a course that steers a sailing vessel as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
[94] the act of scouring for game by beating the organized scouring of a particular woodland so as to rouse the game in it the woodland where game is so roused
[95] short for beatnik
[96] fencing a sharp tap with one's blade on an opponent's blade to deflect it
[97] (modifier, often capital) of, characterized by, or relating to the Beat Generation a beat poet ; beat philosophy
[98] (postpositive) slang totally exhausted

Words related to Beating

drubbing, whipping, slaughter, defeat, annihilation, bashing, rout, trouncing, shellacking

Words nearby Beating

beater, beatific, beatification, beatify, beatinest, beating, beating-up, beatitude, beatitudes, beatles, beatnik

Origin of Beating

before 900; Middle English beten, Old English bēatan; cognate with Old Norse bauta, Middle Low German bōten, Old High German bōzzan; akin to MIr búalaim I hit, Latin fūstis a stick < *bheud-

Words that may be confused with Beating

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, beatbeat, beet

Other words from Beating

beat·a·ble , adjective
o·ver·beat , verb, o·ver·beat, o·ver·beat·en or o·ver·beat, o·ver·beat·ing.
un·der·beat , noun

Word origin for Beating

Old English bēatan ; related to Old Norse bauta , Old High German bōzan

Synonyms for Beating

defeat, drubbing, slaughter, whipping, annihilation, bashing, rout, shellacking, trouncing