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Beat about

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cast aboutverb(intransitive) To try to find; look around; search.
cast aroundverb(ambitransitive) To cast about.
beatingnounThe pulsation of the heart.
beat upverb(transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
beat outverb(US) To defeat by a narrow margin.
beat itverb(idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
beatenverbDefeated.
beat downverb(transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
beat backverb(transitive) To fight against and cause to recede.
beatingsnounThe pulsation of the heart.
beatusnoun(religion) A person who has been beatified.
beatsnounA diminutive of the female given names Beatrice or Beatrix.
beatynounA surname.
look about
defeatedverbSubjugated, beaten, overcome.
aroundSo as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.
round about(emphatic) Round; around.
beatonnounA surname.
get aboutverb(informal) To be mobile, physically active.
beatlenounAny of the four members of the Beatles quartet; or a person associated with the Beatles.

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