beat

/bit/ verb (present participle beating, past tense beat, past participle beaten)

Definition

B1 to defeat someone in a competition: Our team beat the Yankees 3-1.

B1 When your heart beats, it makes regular movements and sounds: By the time the doctor arrived, his heart had stopped beating.

› to hit a person or animal repeatedly: They saw him beating his dog with a stick.

› to hit against something hard, making a regular sound: Rain beat against the windows.

(Definition of beat verb from the Webster's Essential Mini Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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