beat
verb (HIT) /biːt/ (beat, beaten or US also beat)Definition
B2 [I or T, usually + adv/prep] to hit repeatedly: They saw him beating his dog with a stick. The child had been brutally/savagely beaten. She was beaten to death. [+ obj + adj ] He was beaten senseless. Beat the drum. The rain was beating down incessantly on the tin roof.Hitting and beatingPunishing by causing pain beat a path through sth › to form a path in an area where long grass or bushes grow closely together, by hitting the plants with your hands or an object, or by stepping on them: We beat a path through the undergrowth.Pedestrian routes
(Definition of beat verb (HIT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- -bashing suffix (HIT)
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- battered adjective (HIT)
- battering noun
- butt verb
- deck verb (HIT)
- hammer verb (HIT WITH FORCE)
- head-butt verb
- kick noun (HIT)
- kick verb
- knock sb's block off idiom
- licking noun (PUNISHMENT)
- pound verb
- swing noun (SIDEWAYS MOVEMENT)
- swipe verb (HIT)
- thump noun
- thump verb
- whack noun (HIT)
- whack verb
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