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1.b> (), ; ; ; to beat at / on / the door ; the hail was beating against the windowpanes ; waves beat against the shore ; the hailstorm had beaten the wheat ; the eagle beats the air with its wings ; to beat a nut tree (i>);
2.b> 1) (), , ; to beat with a stick ; to beat with a whip , ; to beat to death ; badly beaten ; to beat black and blue ; you ought to be well beaten! ! he was beating his horse mercilessly ;
2) (); ; ; to beat to powder, to beat small ; to beat to pieces ;
3.b> 1) (.i> at) , i> (); , ; , ; their team was beaten ; he beat his adversary in the last round ; I can beat you at swimming ; the enemy was beaten and scattered (); to beat smb. on points .i> ;
2) , ..i> (), , ..i> ; to beat the inflation ;
3) .i> (), ; this problem can beat even the experts / ; it beats me , , ;
4) .i> (), , , ; as a storyteller Chaucer beats all his contemporaries , ; to beat all ; you can't beat it ;
5) .i> .i> (), ; ; to beat a statute ; to beat a grocer's bill ( i>);
6) (to) (, ); i> ; we beat the train when it was nearing town , ;
4.b> (), , ; his heart was beating ; his heart beat with joy ; the flag was beating in the wind ; the cans beat in the van ;
5.b> (), , / ; to beat the jungle for monkeys ; to beat the town for smb. ; the posse beat the countryside for the fugitive ;
6.b> (.i> it) .i> .i> (), ; let's beat it , ; beat to! / !
II
1.b> 1) (); to beat time ) ; ) i> / / ( ..i>); he was beating time with his foot ; the clock was beating midnight 12 ;
2) (), ; ; to beat the drum / [.i> .i> ]; to beat a retreat ) .i> .i> / ; ) ; ) ..i> , ; ) , ; to beat a charge ) .i> .i> ) / ; ) ; to beat an alarm ; to beat a parley ) .i> .i> / ; ) ;
3) (), ( ..i> i>); the drums beat to arms ;
2.b> 1) (; ) ..i>; to beat eggs [cream] [] ; to beat pillows ; to beat dough ; this cream does not beat well ;
2) (), ( ..i>); to beat clay ;
3.b> 1) (.i> up) (), ( ..i>); to beat carpets [rugs, curtains] [, ] ;
2) () ..i>;
3) .i> (); ; to beat flat ; to beat into leaf / ; they shall beat their swords into plough-shares .i>, .i> ;
4) () i>;
5) () i>;
4.b> (), ; / ; to beat a walk ; to beat a path ; to beat one's way through ; he beat his way through the crowd ;
5.b> .i>, .i> (); i> ; to beat against the wind ; to beat along the wind ;
to beat aboutb> 1) / / () / i>; i> ;
2) (); i> / ;
to beat backb> i> (); i> ; ; the enemy was beaten back ; he beat me back , ;
to beat downb> 1) (); ;
2) () i>; ; ; the rain has beaten down the corn [flowers] [] ; the rain has beaten down the dust ;
3) : the sun beat down mercilessly ;
4) i> (); to beat down a price ; to beat a man down in a price , ;
5) (), ( ..i>); to beat down all opposition ;
to beat inb> 1) (), ; ; to beat the door in ;
2) = to beat into;
to beat intob> (), ; to beat a nail into the wall ; to beat smth. into one's head / / ; I can't beat it into his head , ;
to beat offb> i> () .i> to beat back;
to beat onb> = to beat upon;
to beat outb> 1) (); the dry grass caught fire but we soon beat it out , ;
2) .i> () (), ; to beat out the meaning of smth. / ; let's beat the matter out ;
3) ();
4) (out of) (), ; he cannot beat it out of his head ;
5) : to beat out of reason ) (); ; ) (); to beat out of countenance (), ;
6) (of) (), , ; ; he beat her out of a hundred dollars ;
to beat smb. to smth.b> ();
to beat upb> 1) = II 2 1);
2) (); ;
3) (); ; to beat up (for) soldiers ;
4) = II 5;
5) : to beat up to the guns .i> () i> ;
6) (), ;
7) (), , ;
to beatb> uponb> .i> ();
to beat up and downb> ) - ; ) ; to beat the streetsb> , / , ; to beat one's head against a wallb> , / ; to beat the (big) drumb> , i> , i> , [.i> .i> II 1 2)]; to beat one's breastb> / chest /b> , ; beat one's brains / head / (out) with / aboutb>, on / smth.b> ; to beat the air / wind /b> ; ; to beat up the quarters (of)b> ; ( i>); to beat the hoofb> ; to beat one's gums / chops /b> .i> .i> ; ; ; to beat hollow / to a frazzleb>, all to pieces /b> ) / ; ) ; to beat the living daylights out of smb.b> .i> .i> ; he beats it up a lotb> .i> ; to beat smb. to itb> ; ; to beat the rapb> (, i>); can you beat it?b> ? ? you won't easily beat itb> / ; it beats the band / creationb>, cockfightingb>, the Dutchb>, my grandfatherb>, the devilb>, hell /b> , i> / ; enough flowers were sent to beat the bandb> ; it rained to beat the bandb> ; to beat smb.'s timeb> .i> .i> / ; to beat one's wayb> .i> .i> ; tob> beatb> about /b> .i> around / the bushb> , , - ; stop beating about the bush , - ; to beat the recordb> ; one beats the bush while another catches the birdsb> .
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