We found 6 definitions of beat out from 3 different sources.
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beat out - beat out a rhythm | ||
tap out, thump out | ||
beat come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | ||
beat out - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | ||
beat, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
get the better of, defeat, overcome win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" | ||
outscore, outpoint score more points than one's opponents | ||
walk over beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" | ||
eliminate kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" | ||
worst, mop up, pip, rack up, whip defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" | ||
whomp beat overwhelmingly | ||
get the best, have the best, overcome overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" | ||
spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" | ||
get the jump be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" | ||
chouse, chicane, shaft, jockey, cheat, screw equip with a shaft | ||
outwit, outfox, outsmart, overreach, circumvent, beat beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" | ||
outgo, outmatch, outperform, outdo, outstrip, exceed, surmount, surpass get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" | ||
get over, master, overcome, surmount, subdue to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; "Let's get this job over with"; "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task" | ||
best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" | ||
outfight to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" | ||
overmaster, overpower, overwhelm overcome by superior force | ||
checkmate, mate place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" | ||
immobilise, immobilize cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic" | ||
outplay excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" | ||
drub, clobber, lick, bat, cream, thrash strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" |