beat out

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verb

1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (Freq. 2)
- Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
- We beat the competition
- Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
• Syn:
beat, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Derivationally related forms:
vanquishable (for: vanquish), vanquisher (for: vanquish), trouncing (for: trounce), beatable (for: beat), beating (for: beat)
• Hypernyms:
get the better of, overcome, defeat
• Hyponyms:
outpoint, outscore, walk over, eliminate, worst,
pip, mop up, whip, rack up, whomp, get the best,
have the best, overcome, spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout, get the jump,
cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey,
surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo,
surmount, outperform, get over, subdue, master, outflank,
trump, best, scoop, outfight, overpower, overmaster,
overwhelm, checkmate, mate, immobilize, immobilise, outplay,
cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
• Verb Group:
outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
• Entailment:
win
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The fighter managed to beat out his opponent
2. beat out a rhythm
• Syn:
tap out, thump out
• Hypernyms:
beat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something