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beat

beat · more beat · most beat

мертвий

мёртвый, неподвижный, умерший

aus, im Aus, gestorben

ExhaustedExhausted.

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/biːt/

» I want to beat that record.

Я хочу побити цей рекорд.

Meaning

6 senses

(US, slang)Exhausted.
After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
(slang)Dilapidated, beat up.
Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
Having impressively attractive makeup.
Her face was beat for the gods!
(slang)Boring.
(slang)Ugly.
Relating to the Beat Generation.
beat poetry

More definitions

very tired

Examples

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I want to beat that record.
Я хочу побити цей рекорд. — deniko
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Tom will be hard to beat.
Перемогти Тома буде важко. — deniko
deTom wird schwer zu schlagen sein. — Waldelfe
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Tom doesn't beat around the bush.
Том не ходить коло та навколо. — deniko
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I know I can beat Tom.
Я знаю, що можу виграти у Тома. — deniko
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I didn't beat around the bush.
Я не став ходити коло та навколо. — deniko
ruЯ не стал ходить вокруг да около. — marafon
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Origin

From Middle English bet (simple past of beten "to beat"), from Old English bēot (simple pa

From Middle English bet (simple past of beten "to beat"), from Old English bēot (simple past of bēatan "to beat"). Middle English bet would regularly yield *beet; the modern form is influenced by the present stem and the past participle beaten, perhaps by analogy with the Early Modern English paradigm eat:eat (“ate”):eaten. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ (from Middle English bette, alternative simple past of beten) are possibly analogous to read (/ɹɛd/), led, met, etc.

From beatnik, or beat generation.

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Forms

more beat, most beat

Comparative	more beat Lesson
Superlative	most beat Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Close in meaning

very tired:all in bushed dead

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

B1Confusing pairs of words — Because the lesson uses it
A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form

Collocations

12 patterns

got beaten up
able to beat
got beaten
beaten to death
hard to beat
can't beat
who got beaten
nobody can beat
been beaten up
was badly beaten
going to beat
beat around the