Definitions
1.verbTo hit; strike"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."
2.verbTo strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm."He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."
3.verbTo strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4.verbTo move with pulsation or throbbing.
5.verbTo win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event."I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game."
6.verbTo sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7.verbTo strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
8.verbTo mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip."Beat the eggs and whip the cream."
9.verb(In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price"He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35."
10.verbTo indicate by beating or drumming."to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters"
11.verbTo tread, as a path.
12.verbTo exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
13.verbTo be in agitation or doubt.
14.verbTo make a sound when struck."The drums beat."
15.verbTo make a succession of strokes on a drum."The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters."
16.verbTo 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.
17.verbTo arrive at a place before someone."He beat me there."
18.verbTo have sexual intercourse."Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat."
19.verbTo rob."He beat me out of 12 bucks last night."
20.nounThe action by which someone or something is beaten."secret beatings of prisoners"
21.nounA heavy defeat or setback.
22.nounThe pulsation of the heart.