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Beat

/biːt/

A stroke; a blow.

📖 Definitions of "Beat"

noun
  1. 1

    A stroke; a blow.

  2. 2

    A pulsation or throb.

    "a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse"

  3. 3

    A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

  4. 4

    A rhythm.

verb
  1. 1

    To 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. 2

    To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

    "He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."

  3. 3

    To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

  4. 4

    To move with pulsation or throbbing.

adjective
  1. 1

    Exhausted

    "After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."

  2. 2

    Dilapidated, beat up

    "Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."

  3. 3

    Fabulous

    "Her makeup was beat!"

  4. 4

    Boring

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