verb Download 🔗Share To hit; strike Examples : "As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled." action body war Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. Examples : "He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque." action sound Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. Examples : "The baker beaten the eggs with a whisk until they were light and fluffy. " action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event. Examples : ""My older sister has always beaten me at chess, but I'm practicing to get better." " sport achievement action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. Examples : "The small sailboat beaten up the channel, tacking back and forth to make progress against the strong headwind. " nautical sailing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting. Examples : "The hunters beat the forest path to flush out the deer. " sport action game Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip. Examples : "Beat the eggs and whip the cream." food utensil action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price Examples : "He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35." business economy commerce Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To indicate by beating or drumming. Examples : "to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters" communication sound music Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share To make a sound when struck. Examples : "The drums beat." sound music Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The two out-of-tune guitars, played together, created a sound where the notes strangely beaten, producing a distracting, wavering effect. " sound music physics frequency signal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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adjective Download 🔗Share Defeated Examples : "The opposing team was beaten in the final game, losing by a large margin. " outcome sport war achievement military Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows Examples : "a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack" action condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement Examples : "The mother carefully beat the batter for the pancakes with a wooden spoon. " food utensil Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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