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Beat out
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Verb
- 1 To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum.
"The drummer beat out a steady slow march."
- 2 come out better in a competition, race, or conflict wordnet
- 3 To extinguish.
"He managed to beat the flames out with a blanket."
- 4 beat out a rhythm wordnet
- 5 To defeat by a narrow margin. US
"She beat out three other contenders to claim the prize."
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- 6 To work out fully.
- 7 To make gold or silver leaf out of solid metal.
- 8 To bash a hole in.
- 9 To reach base after a bunt or groundball.
"I then made another ſign that I wanted Drink. They found by my eating, that a ſmall Quantity would not ſuffice me, and being a moſt ingenious People, they flung up with great dexterity one of their largeſt Hogſheads, then rolled it towards my Hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a Draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and taſted like a ſmall Wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious."
- 10 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, out.
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