- beating, pulsating, pulsing - expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart"
Antonyms: unrhythmical, unrhythmic (indirect, via rhythmical)
- beating, whipping - the act of overcoming or outdoing
--1 is a kind of fight, fighting, combat, scrap
Derived form: verb beat1 - beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
--2 is a kind of corporal punishment
--2 has particulars: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellationDerived form: verb beat2
- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
--1 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beating1
The fighter managed to beat his opponent
- beat, beat up, work over - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beating2
They want to beat the prisoners
- beat - hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
--3 is one way to strike
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun beat6, noun beat9, noun beater2
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- beat, pound, thump - move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
--4 is one way to move
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun beat3, noun beat2
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- beat - shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
--5 is one way to shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beat9
The chef wants to beat the eggs
- drum, beat, thrum - make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
--6 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun beat3
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- beat - glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
--7 is one way to glare
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- beat, flap - move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
--8 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beat8
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- beat - sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
--9 is one way to sail
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun beat10
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- beat, scramble - stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
--10 is one way to agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun beater2
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- beat - strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
--11 is one way to strike
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beat3
Somebody ----s something
- beat - be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
--12 is one way to be
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- beat, bunk - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
--13 is one way to cheat, rip off, chisel
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- tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat - make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
--14 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beat6
Something ----s
- beat, flap - move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
--15 is one way to move
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- beat - indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun beat3
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- pulsate, beat, quiver - move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
--17 is one way to move
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- beat - make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
--18 is one way to make, create
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- beat - produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
--19 is one way to play
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun beat3
Somebody ----s something
- beat - strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
--20 is one way to beat
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- outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
--21 is one way to surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
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- perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound - be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
--22 is one way to confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
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- exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out - wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam"
--23 is one way to tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue
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- beat, flap - move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"