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beats as one

beats as one is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beat as one.

Meaning of beat as one

Verb

beat as one (third-person singular simple present beats as one, present participle beating as one, simple past beat as one, past participle beaten as one or beat as one)

  1. (especially, idiomatic) To share the same feelings.
    • Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our hearts beat as one to the music and gladness of nature.1851 August, “N. P. W.”, “A Love Letter, Supposed to have been Written for the ‘Home Journal’”, in Henry Bacon, editor, The Ladies’ Repository, volume XX, Boston, Mass.: Published by A. Tompkins, 38...

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What is beats as one the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Beats as one is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beat as one.

Words near beats as one in the dictionary

  1. beats a hasty retreat
  2. beats about
  3. beats about the bush
  4. beats all
  5. beats around the bush
  6. beats as one
  7. beats back
  8. beats Banaghan
  9. beats down
  10. beats feet
  11. beats into

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