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beat
A stroke; a blow.
A pulsation or throb.
"a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse"
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.
To hit; strike
"As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled."
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
"He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque."
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Exhausted
"After the long day, she was feeling completely beat."
Dilapidated, beat up
"Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys."
Fabulous
"Her makeup was beat!"
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