Beat - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 09/07/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Beat.

4 letter answer(s) to beat

ABET
  1. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
CANE
  1. a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
  2. a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
  3. a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
  4. beat with a cane
LICK
  1. (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose"
  2. a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
  3. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
  4. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"
  5. pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
  6. Pattern of notes employed regularly by a jazzman in improvisation. If used too frequently, can be seen as cliche.
  7. take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
  8. touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet"

5 letter answer(s) to beat

ALLIN
FLAIL
  1. an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
  2. give a thrashing to; beat hard
  3. move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
OUTDO
  1. be or do something to a greater degree;
  2. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
PULSE
  1. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
  2. drive by or as if by pulsation; "A soft breeze pulsed the air"
  3. edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
  4. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
  5. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
  6. the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
  7. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"
  8. Throb
ROUTE
  1. an established line of travel or access
  2. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
  3. divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
  4. send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
  5. send via a specific route
THROB
  1. a deep pulsating type of pain
  2. an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head"
  3. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
  4. pulsate or pound with abnormal force; "my head is throbbing"; "Her heart was throbbing"
  5. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
TIRED
  1. cause to be bored
  2. deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
  3. depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
  4. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
  5. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
  6. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
WEARY
  1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
  2. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
  3. physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic"
WORST
  1. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
  2. (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year"
  3. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
  4. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
  5. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
  6. defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
  7. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
  8. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
  9. having undesirable or nega

6 letter answer(s) to beat

BESTED
  1. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
DEFEAT
  1. an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
  2. the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
  3. thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
  4. To overcome opposition
  5. 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"
PUMMEL
  1. strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"
  2. To punch severely
RHYTHM
  1. an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; "the never-ending cycle of the seasons"
  2. natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
  3. recurring at regular intervals
  4. the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"
  5. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"
STRESS
  1. (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"
  2. (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
  3. difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension;
  4. Pressure
  5. put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
  6. special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
  7. test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"
  8. the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
  9. to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
THRASH
  1. a swimming kick used while treading water
  2. beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
  3. beat the seeds out of a grain
  4. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
  5. dance the slam dance
  6. give a thrashing to; beat hard
  7. move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!"
  8. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

7 letter answer(s) to beat

CONQUER
  1. Defeats
  2. overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"
  3. take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
  4. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"
PULSATE
  1. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
  2. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
  3. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"

8 letter answer(s) to beat

DEFEATED
  1. beaten or overcome; not victorious; "the defeated enemy"
  2. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"
  3. people who are defeated; "the Romans had no pity for the defeated"
  4. thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
  5. 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"
ONEUPPED
OVERCAME
  1. get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
  2. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
  3. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
  4. 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"

3 letter answer(s) to beat

LAM
  1. a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam"
  2. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
  3. give a thrashing to; beat hard
TOP
  2. a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance;
  3. a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin;
  4. a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips;
  5. be ahead of others; be the first;
  6. be the culminating event;
  7. covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container);
  8. cut the top off;
  9. finish up or conclude;
  10. platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
  11. situated at the top or highest position; "the top shelf"
  12. the greatest possible intensity;
  13. the upper part of anything;

Frequently asked questions about ‘Beat’

What's the best solution for Beat?

The most likely answer for the crossword clue Beat is LAM. Other possible answers include ABET, ALLIN, BESTED, CANE, CONQUER, DEFEAT, DEFEATED, FLAIL, LICK, ONEUPPED, OUTDO, OVERCAME, PULSATE, PULSE, PUMMEL, RHYTHM, ROUTE, STRESS, THRASH, THROB, TIRED, TOP, WEARY, WORST.

How many solutions are there for Beat?

We have found 25 possible answers for the crossword clue Beat.

Which crosswords feature clues like Beat?

Clues like Beat often appear in daily crosswords from publications such as The i Paper, The Guardian Prize, The Guardian Genius, The Sun Coffee Time, The Times Specialist, among others.

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Crown8
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Highest point7
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Thrash7
Trounce7
Worn out7
Course6
Crook6
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Spent6
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Tired6
Vitality6
Cap5
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