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)

Meaning:

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

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

Context examples:

Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship / We beat the competition / 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)

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

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

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)

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

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

get the jump (be there first)

rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)

whomp (beat overwhelmingly)

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

eliminate (remove from a contest or race)

walk over (beat easily)

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

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to beat out his opponent

Meaning:

Beat out a rhythm

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

tap out; thump out; beat 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