| beat | | |
| n. (location) | 1. beat, round | a regular route for a sentry or policeman.; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" |
| ~ itinerary, route, path | an established line of travel or access. |
| n. (event) | 2. beat, heartbeat, pulsation, pulse | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.; "he could feel the beat of her heart" |
| ~ periodic event, recurrent event | an event that recurs at intervals. |
| ~ diastole | the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood. |
| ~ systole | the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery. |
| ~ throbbing, pounding, throb | an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart).; "he felt a throbbing in his head" |
| n. (communication) | 3. beat, musical rhythm, rhythm | the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music.; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" |
| ~ backbeat | a loud steady beat. |
| ~ downbeat | the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward). |
| ~ offbeat, upbeat | an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure). |
| ~ syncopation | a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat. |
| ~ musical time | (music) the beat of musical rhythm. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. beat | 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. |
| ~ oscillation, vibration | (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean. |
| n. (person) | 5. beat, beatnik | a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. |
| ~ beat generation, beatniks, beats | a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop). |
| ~ recusant, nonconformist | someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct. |
| n. (event) | 6. beat | the sound of stroke or blow.; "he heard the beat of a drum" |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| n. (communication) | 7. beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. |
| ~ metrics, prosody | the study of poetic meter and the art of versification. |
| ~ poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody | (prosody) a system of versification. |
| ~ catalexis | the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse. |
| ~ scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns. |
| ~ common meter, common measure | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad. |
| ~ metrical foot, metrical unit, foot | (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. |
| n. (attribute) | 8. beat | a regular rate of repetition.; "the cox raised the beat" |
| ~ pace, rate | the relative speed of progress or change.; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated" |
| n. (act) | 9. beat | a stroke or blow.; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" |
| ~ stroke | a single complete movement. |
| n. (act) | 10. beat | the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing. |
| ~ sailing | riding in a sailboat. |
| v. (competition) | 11. 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" |
| ~ win | be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" |
| ~ outscore, outpoint | score more points than one's opponents. |
| ~ walk over | beat easily.; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" |
| ~ eliminate | remove from a contest or race.; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" |
| ~ worst, mop up, whip, pip, rack up | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| ~ whomp | beat overwhelmingly. |
| ~ get the best, have the best, overcome | overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.; "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
| ~ spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle | defeat disastrously. |
| ~ get the jump | be there first.; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" |
| ~ chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw | defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
| ~ outsmart, outwit, circumvent, outfox, overreach, beat | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| ~ defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| ~ surmount, master, overcome, get over, subdue | get on top of; deal with successfully.; "He overcame his shyness" |
| ~ best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump | get the better of.; "the goal was to best the competition" |
| ~ outfight | to fight better than; get the better of.; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" |
| ~ overmaster, overpower, overwhelm | overcome by superior force. |
| ~ checkmate, mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" |
| ~ immobilise, immobilize | make defenseless. |
| ~ outplay | excel or defeat in a game.; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" |
| ~ drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| v. (contact) | 12. 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" |
| ~ strong-arm | use physical force against.; "They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant" |
| ~ soak | beat severely. |
| ~ pistol-whip | beat with a pistol. |
| ~ belabour, belabor | beat soundly. |
| ~ rough up | treat violently.; "The police strong-armed the suspect" |
| ~ hit | deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument.; "He hit her hard in the face" |
| ~ flog, lash, lather, trounce, welt, whip, slash, strap | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ cane, lambast, lambaste, flog | beat with a cane. |
| ~ kayo, knock cold, knock out | knock unconscious or senseless.; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds" |
| ~ flail, thrash, lam, thresh | give a thrashing to; beat hard. |
| ~ clobber, baste, batter | strike violently and repeatedly.; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" |
| ~ larrup, spank, paddle | give a spanking to; subject to a spanking. |
| v. (contact) | 13. beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| ~ full | beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening.; "full the cloth" |
| ~ beat | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ beetle | beat with a beetle. |
| ~ bastinado | beat somebody on the soles of the feet. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| ~ coldcock, floor, knock down, deck, dump | knock down with force.; "He decked his opponent" |
| ~ whang | beat with force. |
| ~ paste | hit with the fists.; "He pasted his opponent" |
| ~ thresh, thrash | beat the seeds out of a grain. |
| ~ hammer | beat with or as if with a hammer.; "hammer the metal flat" |
| v. (motion) | 14. beat, pound, thump | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pulsate, pulse, throb | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" |
| ~ palpitate, flutter | beat rapidly.; "His heart palpitated" |
| ~ thrash | beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all. |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ flap | move noisily.; "flags flapped in the strong wind" |
| v. (creation) | 15. beat | shape by beating.; "beat swords into ploughshares" |
| ~ shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work | make something, usually for a specific function.; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" |
| ~ forge, hammer | create by hammering.; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" |
| v. (perception) | 16. beat, drum, thrum | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (perception) | 17. beat | glare or strike with great intensity.; "The sun was beating down on us" |
| ~ glare | shine intensely.; "The sun glared down on us" |
| v. (motion) | 18. beat, flap | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ flutter | flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements.; "The seagulls fluttered overhead" |
| ~ flap, beat | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| ~ bate | flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons. |
| ~ clap | cause to strike the air in flight.; "The big bird clapped its wings" |
| v. (motion) | 19. beat | sail with much tacking or with difficulty.; "The boat beat in the strong wind" |
| ~ navigation, pilotage, piloting | the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place. |
| ~ sail | travel on water propelled by wind.; "I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on" |
| v. (contact) | 20. beat, scramble | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ whisk, whip | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| ~ cream | make creamy by beating.; "Cream the butter" |
| ~ raise up, commove, disturb, stir up, vex, shake up, agitate | change the arrangement or position of. |
| v. (contact) | 21. 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" |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (stative) | 22. beat | be superior.; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (social) | 23. beat, bunk | avoid paying.; "beat the subway fare" |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| v. (perception) | 24. beat, tick, ticktack, ticktock | make a sound like a clock or a timer.; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (motion) | 25. beat, flap | move with a flapping motion.; "The bird's wings were flapping" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ flap, beat | move with a thrashing motion.; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" |
| ~ flail, thresh | move like a flail; thresh about.; "Her arms were flailing" |
| ~ clap | strike the air in flight.; "the wings of the birds clapped loudly" |
| v. (motion) | 26. beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ beat | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| ~ thump, beat, pound | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| ~ tap out, thump out, beat out | beat out a rhythm. |
| ~ drum, thrum, beat | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| v. (motion) | 27. beat, pulsate, quiver | move with or as if with a regular alternating motion.; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ pulsate, pulse, throb | expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically.; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" |
| v. (creation) | 28. beat | make by pounding or trampling.; "beat a path through the forest" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ trample, tread | tread or stomp heavily or roughly.; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" |
| v. (creation) | 29. beat | produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly.; "beat the drum" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| ~ play | perform music on (a musical instrument).; "He plays the flute"; "Can you play on this old recorder?" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| v. (contact) | 30. beat | strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| v. (competition) | 31. beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | 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" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| v. (cognition) | 32. amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex | 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" |
| ~ stump, mix up | cause to be perplexed or confounded.; "This problem stumped her" |
| ~ befuddle, confound, bedevil, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
| ~ riddle | set a difficult problem or riddle.; "riddle me a riddle" |
| ~ elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
| v. (body) | 33. beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| ~ fag out, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, fag, wear | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| ~ frazzle | exhaust physically or emotionally.; "She was frazzled after the visit of her in-laws" |
| ~ play | exhaust by allowing to pull on the line.; "play a hooked fish" |
| ~ kill | tire out completely.; "The daily stress of her work is killing her" |
| adj. | 34. all in, beat, bushed, dead | 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" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ tired | depleted of strength or energy.; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" |
| scour | | |
| n. (location) | 1. scour | a place that is scoured (especially by running water). |
| ~ place, spot, topographic point | a point located with respect to surface features of some region.; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" |
| v. (contact) | 2. scour | examine minutely.; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive" |
| ~ look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| v. (contact) | 3. scour, scrub | clean with hard rubbing.; "She scrubbed his back" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| ~ holystone | scrub with a holystone.; "holystone the ship's deck" |
| v. (contact) | 4. abrade, scour | rub hard or scrub.; "scour the counter tops" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| v. (change) | 5. flush, purge, scour | rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" |
| ~ rinse, rinse off | wash off soap or remaining dirt. |
| trounce | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | 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" |
| ~ flagellate, scourge | whip.; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" |
| ~ leather | whip with a leather strap. |
| ~ horsewhip | whip with a whip intended for horses. |
| ~ switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod. |
| ~ cowhide | flog with a cowhide. |
| ~ cat | beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| ~ birch | whip with a birch twig. |
| v. (communication) | 2. bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce | censure severely or angrily.; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" |
| ~ castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate, correct | censure severely.; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" |
| ~ brush down, tell off | reprimand.; "She told the misbehaving student off" |
| ~ criticise, criticize, pick apart, knock | find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws.; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free" |
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