Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To beat up (a person) severely.

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To defeat severely.

Forms

beats hollow, beating hollow, beat hollow, beaten hollow
Base formbeat hollow · to beat hollow
3rd person singularbeats hollow
Present participlebeating hollow
Past simplebeat hollow
Past participlebeaten hollow / beat hollow

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybeat hollow
he, she, itbeats hollow

Past simpleLesson

all personsbeat hollow

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave beaten hollow
he, she, ithas beaten hollow

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill beat hollow

Synonyms

1 synonyms
beat to a pulp

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
beastiebeatB1beaterbeatingbeatitudebeatnik

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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