Crossword clues for beating
beating
- Make a rhythmic sound
- Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- Move rhythmically
- Glare or strike with great intensity
- Move with a thrashing motion
- Sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- Stir vigorously
- Defeat
- Overcoming (a problem)
- Severe setback
- Be superior
- Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- Hit repeatedly
- Make by pounding or trampling
- Wear out completely
- Move with a flapping motion
- Make a sound like a clock or a timer
- Deprive somebody of something by deceit
- Be a mystery or bewildering to
- The act of overcoming or outdoing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beating \Beat"ing\, n.
The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
(Acoustics & Mus.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
(Naut.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.
Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.]
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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.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
--Ex. xxx. 36.They did beat the gold into thin plates.
--Ex. xxxix. 3. To punish by blows; to thrash.
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To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.
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To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.
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To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.
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To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle.
--Prescott.For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that.
--M. Arnold. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
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To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
--Locke. (Mil.) 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 baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
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to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. To beat off, to repel or drive back. To beat out, to extend by hammering. To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.'' --South. To beat the dust. (Man.)
To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse.
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To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.
To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, beatunge "action of inflicting blows," verbal noun from beat (v.). Meaning "pulsation" is recorded from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. action of the verb ''to beat'' vb. (present participle of beat English)
WordNet
adj. expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart" [syn: pulsating, pulsing]
n. the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: whipping]
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "beating".
Their voices rose like distant waves in a slow, antiphonal song, punctuated by the rumble of huge drums bound in human hide, which thumped and throbbed like the beating of a gigantic heart.
He was badly bruised from the beating he had received when he had been ambushed, and, controlling the hell-hound had been as exhausting as riding a high-spirited thoroughbred.
I recalled my early youth and the beatings given to students who were lazy or who wasted expensive paints, and the blows of the bastinado, which landed on the soles of their feet until they bled.
Here I fell into a minute or two of insensate ululation, for at the mention of the King of Goimr, the two policemen applying the bastinadoes had fallen into a truly vigorous beating of my feet.
I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.
Turning on his heel he made a rapid dive for the batwing doors of the saloon, beating Wardle to them by a scant half second.
When he is half dead with the beating, they lay him down on his plank bedstead and cover him over with his pelisse.
Upon such an instrument did the heavenly maid beguile the time when she was yet uncouthly young--at the hoydenish age when men also cajoled her with clicking sticks and the beating of hollow logs, and music was but a variety of noise.
Heinz Berner huddled shivering against the wall and called for his mother, His heart almost stopped beating as the footsteps stopped.
The blizzard was beating and scouring 267 at the house, the winds were roaring and shrieking.
Myles, bluntly, vexed that the boy did not take the disgrace of his beating more to heart.
Pope, in the center of the picture, who is talking with the bonnetless Doge--talking tranquilly, too, although within twelve feet of them a man is beating a drum, and not far from the drummer two persons are blowing horns, and many horsemen are plunging and rioting about--indeed, twenty-two feet of this great work is all a deep and happy holiday serenity and Sunday-school procession, and then we come suddenly upon eleven and one-half feet of turmoil and racket and insubordination.
There was life in the wagon, inside it, and for a brief moment as the bowstring whipped air and his eye held the target, he felt hearts beating from within.
Galloping over the few patches that the starblaze showed comparatively free of traps, walking again, forcing the reluctant beasts through thick patches of bramble, on and on, until the whole world seemed to shake and the noise was a thousand hammers beating on them, a noise so pervasive it was around them as solid as the air slamming against them.
When braying is the music, what counterpoint can there be except a beating?