beat

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.

He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

[…] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]

A thousand hearts beat happily.

Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.

The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.

Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,

I know not why any one should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be a critick, or make speeches, and write dispatches in it.

to still my beating mind

The drums beat.

The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

He beat me there.

Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

When one of 'em runs up a bill here, then goes off and deals somewhere else, and dodges me every time he sees me, that's the man I'm after with a sharp stick. … Honest people often get into tight places, and we would rather help 'em than hurt 'em then. But some just try to beat you.