BEAT

BEAT 1 syllable

B1 · Intermediate 📏 4 letters 🎲 Scrabble 6 ✅ valid word

Useful in everyday and work contexts.

noun
  1. a regular route for a sentry or policeman
  2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
  3. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
  4. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies

💬 Examples

  • "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
  • "he could feel the beat of her heart"
  • "the piece has a fast rhythm"
  • "the conductor set the beat"

🔗 Similar words

roundpulsepulsationheartbeatrhythmmusical_rhythm
verb
  1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  2. give a beating to
  3. hit repeatedly
  4. move rhythmically

💬 Examples

  • "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"
  • "We beat the competition"
  • "subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression"
  • "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"

🔗 Similar words

beat_outcrushshelltrouncevanquishbeat_up
adjective
  1. very tired

💬 Examples

  • "was all in at the end of the day"
  • "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"

🔗 Similar words

all_in(p)beat(p)bushed(p)dead(p)
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