inbeat
inbeat verb: to beat in.
Verb
inbeat (third-person singular simple present inbeats, present participle inbeating, simple past inbeat, past participle inbeaten)
- To beat in.
- […] and in part imputeth it, that the river Rother is not contained in his channel, and so loseth his force to carry away the sands and beach which the sea doth inbeat into the haven.1855, Mary Matilda Howard, Hastings, past and present
- […] a man may be superior to his circumstances, and even to these constantly outlying and inbeating influences which deteriorate his life.1873, Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth pulpit
Noun
inbeat (plural inbeats)
- An inward beat.
- The bullet […] came through my chest between two ribs, slightly shattering them, went past my heart, as the doctors later told me, when it must have been on an inbeat instead of an outbeat, and then missed my backbone as it went through the other side of my body about an inch.2002, Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager, The Story of World War II
Adjective
inbeat (not comparable)
- Occurring on an inward beat.
- […] two-beat: an outbeat gesture of (usually circumscribed) ecstasis as my glance is released from my bodily self, and an inbeat return of the glance to the bodily-self now modified by having just perceived its own image in the mirror.1999, Elizabeth A. Grosz, Becomings: explorations in time, memory, and futures
Forms of inbeat
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | inbeats |
| present participle | inbeating |
| past | inbeat |
| past participle | inbeaten |
| Noun | |
| plural | inbeats |
Origin of inbeat
From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat.
Questions about inbeat
- What does inbeat mean?
- Inbeat means to beat in.
- What part of speech is inbeat?
- Inbeat can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of inbeat?
- The past tense of inbeat is inbeat.
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