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