<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.</li><li>to dash against.</li><li>to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against.</li><li>to overcome in a contest; defeat.</li><li>to win over in a race (used with to).</li><li>to be superior to.</li><li>to be incomprehensible to; baffle.</li><li>to mitigate or offset the effects of.</li><li>to sound, such as on a drum.</li><li>to stir vigorously.</li><li>to break, forge, or make by blows.</li><li>to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts.</li><li>to make (a path) by repeated walking.</li><li>to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously.</li><li>to mark (time) by strokes, such as with the hand or foot or with a metronome.</li><li>to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.</li><li>to swindle; cheat (often followed by out).</li><li>to escape or avoid (blame or punishment).</li><li>to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to strike repeated blows; pound.</li><li>to throb or pulsate.</li><li>to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on).</li><li>to make a sound when struck.</li><li>to play, such as on a drum.</li><li>to achieve victory in a contest; win.</li><li>to scour cover for game.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a stroke or blow.</li><li>the sound made by one or more blows.</li><li>a throb or pulsation.</li><li>the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.</li><li>one's assigned or regular path or habitual round.</li><li>the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering.</li><li>the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals.</li><li>the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music.</li><li>a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.</li><li>a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions.</li><li>the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.</li><li>a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations.</li><li>a subdivision of a county, such as in Mississippi.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>exhausted; worn out.</li><li>relating to or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to defeat; win or be chosen over.</li><li>(of a hitter) to make (an infield ground ball or bunt) into a hit.</li><li>to produce hurriedly, especially by writing or typing.</li><li>to ward off; repulse.</li><li>to force back; compel to withdraw.</li><li>to search through; scour.</li><li>to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury.</li><li>British Informal: to find or gather; scare up.</li></ul>