beat
beat has 62 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.
Definitions
- imp.. of Beat
- p. p.. of Beat
- 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.
- v. t.. To punish by blows; to thrash.
- v. t.. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
- v. t.. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
- v. t.. To tread, as a path.
- v. t.. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
- v. t.. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
- v. t.. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- 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.
- v. i.. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.