Beat is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BEAT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to strike repeatedly
• strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip
• strike (an object) repeatedly so as to make a noise
• (of an instrument) make a rhythmical sound through being struck
• strike (a carpet, blanket, etc.) repeatedly in order to remove dust
• flatten or shape (metal) by striking it repeatedly with a hammer
• strike something against (something)
• strike repeatedly at or on something
• move across (an area of land) repeatedly striking at the ground cover in order to raise game birds for shooting
• defeat (someone) in a game or other competitive situation
• overcome (a problem or disease)
• do or be better than (a record or score)
• baffle
• succeed in getting somewhere ahead of (someone)
• take action to avoid (difficulty or inconvenience)
• (of the heart) pulsate
• (of a bird) move (the wings) up and down
• (of a bird) fly making rhythmic wing movements
• stir (cooking ingredients) vigorously to make a smooth or frothy mixture
• leave
• sail into the wind, following a zigzag course with repeated tacking
• strike with a series of violent blows
• To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one\'s breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
• To punish by blows; to thrash.
• To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
• To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
• To tread, as a path.
• To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
• To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
• To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
• To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
• To be in agitation or doubt.
• To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
• To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
• To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
• To 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.
• A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman\'s beat.
• A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
• give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
• hit repeatedly
• move rhythmically
• shape by beating
• make a rhythmic sound
• glare or strike with great intensity
• move with a thrashing motion
• sail with much tacking or with difficulty
• stir vigorously
• strike (a part of one\'s own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
• be superior
• avoid paying
• make a sound like a clock or a timer
• move with a flapping motion
• indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
• make by pounding or trampling
• produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
• strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
• beat through cleverness and wit
• be a mystery or bewildering to
• wear out completely
• be better than
NOUN:
• a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry
• a strong rhythm in popular music
• a regular, rhythmic sound or movement
• the sound made when something, especially a musical instrument, is struck
• a pulsation of the heart.
• a periodic variation of sound or amplitude due to the combination of two sounds, electrical signals, or other vibrations having similar but not identical frequencies.
• an area allocated to a police officer and patrolled on foot
• a spell of duty allocated to a police officer
• an area regularly frequented by someone
• a stretch of water fished by an angler
• a brief pause or moment of hesitation
• A stroke; a blow.
• A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
• The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
• A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
• A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
• a regular route for a sentry or policeman
• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
• the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
• 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
• a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
• the sound of stroke or blow
• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
• a regular rate of repetition
• a stroke or blow
• the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
• stroke or blow
• the movement of a bird's wings
• a person's area of interest
ADJECTIVE:
• completely exhausted
• relating to the beat generation or its philosophy
• Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
• very tired
• totally exhausted

Words related to BEAT

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Words that contain BEAT

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How to use BEAT in a sentence

• It was the work of only a few moments to kick away the brands and beat out the flames which were running along the side of the house.
• He was not an easy man to beat, despite his physical limitations.
• I thought that other chap was about as unfortunate a beggar as could well be, but you beat him hollow at every turn.
• My respect for that astute gentleman was increasing hourly, but it did not deter me, only made me the more resolved to beat him in the end.
• I was that dead beat and tired out that I turned over and went to sleep for another couple of hours.
• Shake the compost well up, and afterwards beat it down equally with the fork.
• Whilst we were at dinner this day in the cabin, on a sudden the window on one side was beat into the room with a crash as if a twenty-pounder had been discharged among us.
• It beat against the thicket in its frantic efforts to reach the little lodge.
• We English beat the world because we take a licking well.
• QUEEN We will not grieve at this, but with hot vengeance Beat down this armed mischief.
• The Spaniards saw their soil in the hands of a foreigner, and their proud hearts beat high with indignation at the outrage committed.
• He can calculate for years to come the motions of the tides, which he can not control, but can not tell how his own pulse shall beat, or whether it shall beat at all, to-morrow.
• The very hand that drew, the very mouth that matched words, the very body that beat and curved and swayed in movement, were Western and Eastern at the same time.
• That night up in that gallery was a man whose heart began to beat when I told the story, thinking it was him I meant, till I came to the two children.
• It was coming toward her from the hills, and an unaccountable but overwhelming desire to beat a hasty retreat took possession of her.
• I beat about my chamber like a silly bird in a cage.
• Then I touched his wrist, feeling for a pulse which had ceased to beat.
• After this he took his wife home, and often beat her, or set his mother on her.
• He turned in the garden gate, and beat with his heavy boot against the closed door.
• And our heart beat in our fingertips, without reason.
• His heart beat rapidly as he knocked at the door, and he awaited the opening with impatience.
• When all the dough has been cut out, beat up an egg.
• Guess I have got together a pretty tidy Army, that should beat BARNUM into small potatoes.
• Supper being over, the drum beat to quarters, and the captain, having received the usual reports, ordered the watch to be called.

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