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The Meaning of beat
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(imp.) of Beat
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(p. p.) of Beat
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(v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
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(v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
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(v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
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(v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
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(v. t.) To tread, as a path.
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(v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
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(v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
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(v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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(v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
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(v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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(v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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(v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
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(v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
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(v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
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(v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
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(v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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(v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
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(n.) A stroke; a blow.
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(n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
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(n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
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(n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
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(n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
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(v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
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(v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
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(v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
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(a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Synonyms
round
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pulse
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pulsation
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heartbeat
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rhythm
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musical rhythm
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beatnik
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meter
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metre
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measure
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cadence
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beat out
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crush
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shell
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trounce
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vanquish
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beat up
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work over
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pound
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thump
,
drum
,
thrum
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flap
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scramble
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bunk
,
tick
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ticktock
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ticktack
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flap
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pulsate
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quiver
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outwit
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overreach
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outsmart
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outfox
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circumvent
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perplex
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vex
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stick
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get
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puzzle
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mystify
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baffle
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pose
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bewilder
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flummox
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stupefy
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nonplus
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gravel
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amaze
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dumbfound
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exhaust
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wash up
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tucker
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tucker out
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all in
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bushed
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dead
Homophones
beet
Rhymes
amit
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athlete
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backseat
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beet
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bittersweet
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bleat
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bradstreet
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breit
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bridgette
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browbeat
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buckwheat
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bufete
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cheat
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cleat
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cliett
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compete
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complete
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conceit
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concrete
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crabmeat
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crete
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deadbeat
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deceit
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defeat
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delete
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deplete
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discreet
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discrete
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downbeat
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drumbeat
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eat
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effete
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elite
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excrete
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feat
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feet
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fleet
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freet
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gamete
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gleet
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greet
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grete
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heartbeat
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heat
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incomplete
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indiscreet
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jobete
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keitt
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kriete
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lalit
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lanete
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leet
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leete
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leite
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longstreet
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margarete
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marguerite
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marquerite
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meat
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meet
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mesquite
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mete
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mincemeat
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mistreat
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murveit
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neat
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neet
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noncompete
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obsolete
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offbeat
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overeat
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overheat
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parakeet
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peat
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peet
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peete
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pete
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petite
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piet
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piette
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pleat
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puneet
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quiett
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receipt
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repeat
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replete
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retreat
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seat
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secrete
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sheet
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shumeet
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skeat
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skeet
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skeete
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sleet
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spreadsheet
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st
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street
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suite
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sweatt
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sweet
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swete
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teat
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teet
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threatt
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threet
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thweatt
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treat
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tweet
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uncomplete
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unseat
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upbeat
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vanvliet
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veit
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vliet
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wheat
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worksheet