Synonyms of beat
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Another word for beat is newsbeat. Other synonyms of beat are knock, pound, strike, hammer and whack.
Synonyms and similar words for beat
nounThe primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government...
- newsbeatSynonym of beat (“the primary focus of a reporter's stories”).
verbTo hit; to strike.
- knock
- poundTo strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- strike
- hammerTo beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- whackTo beat convincingly; to thrash.
- abuse
- aggress
- assail
- assault
- attack
- beleaguer
- bepommelTo pommel; to beat, as with a stick.
- beset
- besiege
- bombard
- charge
- come down on slangTo attack or harass (someone).
- dust upTo attack (a person) physically; to beat up.
- fall on
- fall upon
- hit figurativelyTo administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- impugn
- invade
- lay intoTo beat up or launch an attack against; to strike forcefully.
- lay siege
- let someone have it
- light intoTo set upon or attack.
- onfall
- onset
- overrun
- pommelTo pound or beat.
- rush
- set the dogs upon
- set upon
- storm
- strike at
- wapTo beat; to whap.
- whap
- bangTo engage in sexual intercourse.
- basteTo beat with a stick; to cudgel.
- batter
- belabor
- blow
- boom-boomTo strike or beat.
- buffet
- butt
- calcitrateTo kick.
- cuff
- dab
- dashTo destroy by striking (against).
- dowseTo use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
- feezeTo beat; to chastise.
- fetch one a blow
- flap
- give tocoTo beat; to thrash.
- kick
- impact
- lambasteTo give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
- lunge
- patter
- pat
- peltTo bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
- pink
- poke
- pummel
- punch
- tapTo (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
- thrashTo beat mercilessly.
- thump
- thwackTo hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
- rap
- slam
- slap
- smack
- spankTo beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual...
- swapTo beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
- whipTo thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- yerk
- jerk obsoleteTo beat, to hit.
- lay on archaic
- smite archaic
- swinge archaicTo chastise; to beat.
- vapulate obsoleteTo flog or whip; to beat or strike.
verbTo persuade the seller to reduce a price.
verbTo have sexual intercourse.
- do itTo have sex; to make it.
- get it on
- have sex
- shagTo have sex.
- copulateTo engage in sexual intercourse.
- couple
- engage in sex
- exchange flesh euphemisticTo engage in sexual intercourse.
- have intimate relations
- have marital relations euphemisticTo have sex (especially of a married couple).
- have sexual relationsTo have sex.
- intercourseTo have sexual intercourse.
- know
- know someone in the biblical senseTo have sex with someone.
- make love euphemisticTo engage in sexual intercourse.
- mateTo copulate.
- share a bed euphemistic
- sleep together euphemistic
- boneTo have sexual intercourse (with).
- boff
- boink
- bonkTo have sexual intercourse (with).
- bopTo have sex.
- bounceTo have sexual intercourse.
- breed
- bump nastiesSynonym of bump uglies.
- bump ugliesTo perform sexual intercourse.
- catch a dickTo be the recipient of penetrative sexual intercourse.
- clap cheeks euphemistic
- crackTo have sex with a female or feminine person for the first time, especially penetrative sex.
- dance euphemistic
- discuss Uganda UK, euphemisticTo have sex.
- dip one's pen in someone's inkwell euphemisticTo have sex with (someone).
- do the deed euphemistic
- do the nasty euphemisticTo engage in sexual intercourse.
Meaning of beat
- noun A stroke; a blow.
- noun A pulsation or throb.
- noun A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
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