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"
glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep
BEST
with skill or in a pleasing manner; "she dances well"; "he writes well"
not forged;
with prudence or propriety; "You would do well to say nothing more"; "could not well refuse"
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified;
it would be sensible; "you'd best stay at home"
with great or especially intimate knowledge; "we knew them well"
morally admirable
in a most excellent way or manner; "he played best after a couple of martinis"
(used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully; "a book well worth reading"; "was well aware of the difficulties ahead"; "suspected only too well what might be going on"
tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health;
from a position of superiority or authority; "father knows best"; "I know better."
in excellent physical condition;
appealing to the mind;
agreeable or pleas
DEFEAT
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"
thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
FLAGELLATE
a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
FLOG
beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
beat with a cane
Sell (slang)
Whipped
LASH
bind with a rope, chain, or cord; "lash the horse"
strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face"
beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
lash or flick about sharply; "The lion lashed its tail"
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object; "the whip raised a red welt"
leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
SCOURGE
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
punish severely; excoriate
a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"
TAN
get a tan, from wind or sun
treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
a light brown the color of topaz
of a light yellowish-brown color
ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
beat or flog
a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
THRASH
beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
give a thrashing to; beat hard
beat the seeds out of a grain
move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!"
beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"