BEAT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beat out mean? 

• BEAT OUT (verb)
  The verb BEAT OUT has 2 senses:

1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

2. beat out a rhythm

  Familiarity information: BEAT OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish

Context example:

Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

Hypernyms (to "beat out" is one way to...):

defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)

"Beat out" entails doing...:

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

Verb group:

beat; circumvent; outfox; outsmart; outwit; overreach (beat through cleverness and wit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "beat out"):

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)

outplay (excel or defeat in a game)

immobilise; immobilize (make defenseless)

checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)

overmaster; overpower; overwhelm (overcome by superior force)

outfight (to fight better than; get the better of)

best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump (get the better of)

get over; master; overcome; subdue; surmount (get on top of; deal with successfully)

outpoint; outscore (score more points than one's opponents)

cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw; shaft (defeat someone through trickery or deceit)

get the jump (be there first)

rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)

get the best; have the best; overcome (overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome)

whomp (beat overwhelmingly)

mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst (defeat thoroughly)

eliminate (remove from a contest or race)

walk over (beat easily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to beat out his opponent

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beat out a rhythm

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

beat out; tap out; thump out

Hypernyms (to "beat out" is one way to...):

beat (indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I beat out the burning remnants of straw in the bunk, then made a dash for the deck for fresh air.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

While 2017 may only emerge as the third warmest year on record, scientists predict it will beat out the competition for warmest year without a warming El Niño.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)

Simpson beat out the trainer’s brains with his heavy stick without receiving any injury from the small knife which Straker used in self-defence, and then the thief either led the horse on to some secret hiding-place, or else it may have bolted during the struggle, and be now wandering out on the moors.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)