| beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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| (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
| (noun) a stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
| (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
| (noun) 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 | - |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) hit repeatedly | - |
| (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
| (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
| (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
| (verb) shape by beating | - |
| (verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
| (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
| (verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
| (verb) be superior | - |
| beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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| (noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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| (verb) make blessedly happy | - |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
| beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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| beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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| beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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| beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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