to make a pattern of sounds by hitting an instrument or other object
to make someone tell you something by hitting them
to stop a fire from burning by hitting it with something
to succeed in winning or gaining something that someone else wants
Atlanta beat out Athens for the privilege of hosting the 1996 Olympics.
He claims that the confession was beaten out of him.
Now the drummers ahead of the lines beat out a quicker cadence in a great booming thunder as ten thousand men began marching forward.
She beat out the flames with a branch.
drummers beating out a rhythm
beats out
beating out
beaten out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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