Beat

Morpheme

Beat

Type

free base

Denotation

pound, strike, whip, throb, avoid, escape

Etymology

Middle English beten; Old English bēatan

Evidence

backbeat, beat,beatable, beatbox, beatee, beaten, beater, beating, beatless, beatnik, beats, breakbeat, browbeat, counterbeat, downbeat, drumbeat, Eurobeat, heartbeat, hoofbeat, midbeat, offbeat, onbeat, swingbeat, unbeatable, unbeaten, upbeat

See Also

Butt