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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr & vb n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b?zan. Cf 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. 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. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small --Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix 3. 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. 5. To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way --Blackmore. 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that --M. Arnold. 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out [Colloq.] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. 9. (Mil.) 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 {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down [Colloq.] {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition. {To beat off}, to repel or drive back {To beat out}, to extend by hammering. {To beat out of} a thing to cause to relinquish it or give it up ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.'' --South. {To beat the dust}. (Man.) a To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. b To perform curvets too precipitately or too low {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot. {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beaten \Beat"en\, a. 1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use ``A broad and beaten way.'' --Milton. ``Beaten gold.'' --Shak. 2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled. 3. Exhausted; tired out 4. Become common or trite; as a beaten phrase. [Obs.] 5. Tried practiced. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: beaten adj 1: decisively defeated in combat [syn: {conquered}, {overcome}, {overthrown}, {overwhelmed}, {routed}, {vanquished}] 2: beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome" [syn: {battered}] 3: formed or made thin by hammering: "beaten gold" 4: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path" [syn: {beaten(a)}]
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