| lash | | |
| cilium, eyelash, lash | (n.) | any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids. |
| lash, thong | (n.) | leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip. |
| lash, whip, whiplash | (n.) | a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object.; "the whip raised a red welt" |
| flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip | (v.) | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| lash | (v.) | lash or flick about sharply.; "The lion lashed its tail" |
| lash, whip | (v.) | strike as if by whipping.; "The curtain whipped her face" |
| lash | (v.) | bind with a rope, chain, or cord.; "lash the horse" |
| bat | | |
| bat, chiropteran | (n.) | nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. |
| at-bat, bat | (n.) | (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit.; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" |
| bat, squash racket, squash racquet | (n.) | a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash. |
| bat, cricket bat | (n.) | the club used in playing cricket.; "a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting" |
| bat | (n.) | a club used for hitting a ball in various games. |
| bat | (v.) | strike with, or as if with a baseball bat.; "bat the ball" |
| bat, flutter | (v.) | wink briefly.; "bat one's eyelids" |
| bat | (v.) | have a turn at bat.; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez" |
| bat | (v.) | use a bat.; "Who's batting?" |
| bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash | (v.) | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| club | | |
| ball club, baseball club, club, nine | (n.) | a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" |
| club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society | (n.) | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| club | (n.) | stout stick that is larger at one end.; "he carried a club in self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club" |
| club, clubhouse | (n.) | a building that is occupied by a social club.; "the clubhouse needed a new roof" |
| club, golf club, golf-club | (n.) | golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball. |
| club | (n.) | a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it.; "he led a small club"; "clubs were trumps" |
| cabaret, club, night club, nightclub, nightspot | (n.) | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" |
| club | (v.) | unite with a common purpose.; "The two men clubbed together" |
| club | (v.) | gather and spend time together.; "They always club together" |
| bludgeon, club | (v.) | strike with a club or a bludgeon. |
| club | (v.) | gather into a club-like mass.; "club hair" |
| beat | | |
| beat, round | (n.) | a regular route for a sentry or policeman.; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" |
| beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse | (n.) | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.; "he could feel the beat of her heart" |
| beat, musical rhythm, rhythm | (n.) | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| beat | (n.) | a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations. |
| beat, beatnik | (n.) | a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. |
| beat | (n.) | the sound of stroke or blow.; "he heard the beat of a drum" |
| beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre | (n.) | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. |
| beat | (n.) | a regular rate of repetition.; "the cox raised the beat" |
| beat | (n.) | a stroke or blow.; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" |
| beat | (n.) | the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing. |
| beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | (v.) | 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" |
| beat, beat up, work over | (v.) | 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" |
| beat | (v.) | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| beat, pound, thump | (v.) | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| beat | (v.) | shape by beating.; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
| beat, drum, thrum | (v.) | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| beat | (v.) | glare or strike with great intensity.; "The sun was beating down on us" |
| beat, flap | (v.) | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| beat | (v.) | sail with much tacking or with difficulty.; "The boat beat in the strong wind" |
| beat, scramble | (v.) | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| beat | (v.) | 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" |
| beat | (v.) | be superior.; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
| beat, bunk | (v.) | avoid paying.; "beat the subway fare" |
| beat, tick, ticktack, ticktock | (v.) | make a sound like a clock or a timer.; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
| beat, flap | (v.) | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| beat | (v.) | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| beat, pulsate, quiver | (v.) | move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" |
| beat | (v.) | make by pounding or trampling.; "beat a path through the forest" |
| beat | (v.) | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| beat | (v.) | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach | (v.) | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex | (v.) | 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" |
| beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up | (v.) | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| all in, beat, bushed, dead | (adj.) | very tired.; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" |
| whip | | |
| whip | (n.) | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping. |
| party whip, whip | (n.) | a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline. |
| whip | (n.) | a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit. |
| whip | (n.) | (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club. |
| mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worst | (v.) | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| whip | (v.) | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.; "The tall grass whipped in the wind" |
| whip, whisk | (v.) | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| blister, scald, whip | (v.) | subject to harsh criticism.; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" |
| flog | | |
| cane, flog, lambast, lambaste | (v.) | beat with a cane. |
| cane | | |
| cane | (n.) | a stick that people can lean on to help them walk. |
| cane | (n.) | a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane. |
| cane | (n.) | a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment. |
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