beateth

Verb

beat (third-person singular simple present beats, present participle beating, simple past beat or (nonstandard) beated, past participle beaten or (colloquial) beat or (nonstandard) beated)

1. (transitive) To hit; to 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.

   Synonyms:

   knock, pound, strike, hammer, whack, abuse, aggress, assail, assault, attack

2. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
   • He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
   • […] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 19:22
4. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
   • A thousand hearts beat happily.1812–18, George Gordon Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, verse 21
5. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
   • Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
6. (intransitive) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

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