amerikai:
brit:
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.
Szinonimák: hammer, knock, pound, strike, whack
2. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
3. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
6. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
9. (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
Szinonimák: negotiate
10. To indicate by beating or drumming.
to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
11. To tread, as a path.
12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
13. To be in agitation or doubt.
14. To make a sound when struck.
The drums beat.
15. To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
16. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
17. To arrive at a place before someone.
He beat me there.
18. To have sexual intercourse.
Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
Szinonimák: do it, get it on, have sex, shag
19. To rob.
He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
1. Defeated
2. Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows
a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack
3. (of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement
4. Trite; hackneyed