Crossword-Solution: BEAT 4 letters, 481 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Beat	imp.	of Beat
Beat	p. p.	of Beat
Beat	v. t.	To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Beat	v. t.	To punish by blows; to thrash.
Beat	v. t.	To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
Beat	v. t.	To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
Beat	v. t.	To tread, as a path.
Beat	v. t.	To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
Beat	v. t.	To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Beat	v. t.	To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Beat	v. t.	To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
Beat	v. i.	To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Beat	v. i.	To move with pulsation or throbbing.
Beat	v. i.	To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
Beat	v. i.	To be in agitation or doubt.
Beat	v. i.	To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
Beat	v. i.	To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
Beat	v. i.	To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
Beat	v. i.	To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
Beat	n.	A stroke; a blow.
Beat	n.	A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
Beat	n.	The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
Beat	n.	A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
Beat	n.	A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
Beat	v. i.	A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
Beat	v. i.	A place of habitual or frequent resort.
Beat	v. i.	A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
Beat	a.	Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BEAT	anagram	ABET, BATE, BETA, TEBA

We have 481 clues for the answer “BEAT”

Clue	Answers
"And the ___ goes on"	1 answer
"Don't ___ around the bush"	1 answer
"If that don't ___ all!"	1 answer
"The ___ With Ari Melber"	1 answer
"Turn the ___ Around" (1994 Gloria Estefan hit)	1 answer
"Turn the ___ Around" (Vicki Sue Robinson song)	1 answer
"We Got the ___" (Go-Go's hit of 1982)	1 answer
"We Got the ___" (Go-Go's hit)	1 answer
"You Can't Stop the ___" ("Hairspray" finale)	1 answer
"___ It" (Michael Jackson song)	1 answer
"___ the Clock"	1 answer
"___ the Devil," Bogart film	1 answer
'50s generation	1 answer
'50s poets	1 answer
*Musical starting point	1 answer
A cop pounds it.	1 answer
A drummer keeps it	1 answer
Altogether tuckered	1 answer
Apt rhyme for "defeat"	1 answer
Assigned route	1 answer
BATON movement	1 answer
Backing track for a rapper	1 answer
Be the winner.	1 answer
Best in a competition	1 answer
CONSTABLE, appointed course of	1 answer
Clean rugs	1 answer
Cop Route	1 answer
Cop's assignment	1 answer
Cop's charge	1 answer
Cop's domain	1 answer
Cop's job	1 answer
Cop's milieu	1 answer
Cop's path	1 answer
Cop's patrol	1 answer
Cop's route	1 answer
Cop's territory	1 answer
Dance to it	1 answer
Dancing stimulus	1 answer
Defeat in a match	1 answer
Descriptive of present generation.	1 answer
Do meringue	1 answer
Dog tired	1 answer
Drubbed or whipped	1 answer
Drum contribution	1 answer
Drum emanation	1 answer
Drummer's assignment	1 answer
Drummer's duty	1 answer
Drummer's job	1 answer
Drummer's part	1 answer
Drummers keep it	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BEAT (5)

Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that _Serbonian_ Bog Betwixt _Damiata_ and mount _Casius_ old, Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of Fire.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, “I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear.” She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Let me see you try it.” I would then make the letters which I had been so fortunate as to learn, and ask him to beat that.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

But when he had his will in everything, And no desire was left unsatisfied, It thundered from the netherworld; the maids Shivered, and crouching at their father’s knees Wept, beat their breast and uttered a long wail.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with BEAT (3)

God is the ultimate recycler. We have a good planet here. It has its troubles, yes. We have overpopulation, we have pollution, we have global warming, we have the Thursday night television lineup,” more laughter, “and, of course, we have the infected. We have a lot of problems on Earth, and it might seem like a great idea to hold the Rapture now — why wait? Let’s move on to Heaven, and leave the trials and tribulations of our earthly existence behind us. Let’s get while the g…

Mira Grant Feed

I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford." Me and Shrek, we're onions.

Nora Roberts Tribute

What a woman you are,” he murmured, and she heard the emotion in it, theway the Irish thickened just a bit in his voice. And saw it in those vivid eyes when he drew back. “That you would think of this. That you would do this.” He shook his head, kissed her. Like the breath, long and quiet.“I can’t thank you enough. There isn’t enough thanks. I can’t say what this means to me, even to you. I don’t have the words for it.” He took her hands,. You stagger me.” He framed her face …

J.D. Robb Indulgence in Death

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 483 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).