4. (all of food) stir, mix, blend; whip, whisk, froth.
5. shape, form, mold, forge, hammer; generate, create, fashion, model, manufacture, make, fabricate; produce, cause, effect, bring about, accomplish.
6. tread, trample, wear, groove, channel, make a way.
7. (often fol. by up) thrash, trounce, drub, Inf wallop, Inf whale, SI. clobber, SI. pin one's ears back.
8. defeat, trounce, rout, vanquish, worst, Inf. lick, SI. shellac, SI. pulverize; conquer, master, overthrow, overpower, overwhelm; break, subdue, quell, quench, thwart, check, stop; quash, destroy, crush, trample, do for, SI. do in.
9. win over [s.o.], place first, get the better of, SI. beat out; surpass, eclipse, exceed, excel, transcend, top, outdo, outstrip, do more for [s.o.]; overcome, prevail over.
10. throb, pound, thump; pulsate, pulse, palpitate.
-n. 11. stroke, blow, bastinado, Scot. dunt, Scot. and North Eng. paik, punch, box, knockout, Both Boxing, left, right, Inf. whomp, Inf. wallop, Both Brit. Dial, douse, yerk, U.S. SI. biff, SI. bop; buffet, cuff, strike, hit, thwack, slap, smack, Inf. whack, Inf. clout, SI. conk, SI. bash.
12. tap, click, clap, tick, ticktock.
13. throb, thump, pulsation, pulse, palpitation.
14. run, round, circuit, orbit, course, route, path, tack, tour, journey; assignment, duty, job, task, chore; zone, area, neighborhood.
beaten, adj. 1. trodden, well-trodden, trampled, much traveled; worn, well-used, over-used, threadbare, napless, smooth.
2. defeated, trounced, routed, vanquished, SI. shellacked, SI. pulverized; conquered, overthrown, overpowered, overwhelmed; broken, subdued, quelled, quenched; thwarted, checked, stopped, held back; quashed, destroyed, crushed.
3. exhausted, prostrate, prostrated, drained, spent, worn out, played out, U.S. Inf. tuckered, Inf. beat, Inf. done in, Inf. done for; fagged, jaded, depleted, used up; fatigued, tired, wearied, weary, drooping, ready to drop; toilworn, wayworn, footsore; haggard, emaciated, wasted, drawn, hollow-eyed; enervated, enervate, languid, debilitated, weakened, weak, enfeebled, feeble, faint, emasculated, emasculate, Inf. groggy.
4. (all of food) whipped, whisked, frothed; stirred, mixed, blended; pounded, tenderized.
beatific, adj. 1. blissful, heavenly, celestial, paradisical, paradisiac, Elysian; transcendent, transcendental, supernatural; divine, sacred, angelic, saintly.
2. rapturous, ecstatic, enchanting, enrapturing, transporting, enravishing; wonderful, glorious, delightful; happy, glad, joyful,
beatify, v. 1. enrapture, transport, enravish, enthrall, entrance, enchant, charm; gladden, make joyful, rejoice, Archaic, felicitate.
2. declare blessed, enshrine in the canon of saints; laud, venerate, revere; sanctify, hallow, bless, consecrate.
beating, n. 1. battering, pounding, pommeling, pummeling, pelting, going over, SI. pasting; thrash, thrashing, flogging, lashing, flagellation, whipping, spanking, Inf. tanning; smacking, slapping, Inf. whacking; cudgeling, fustigation, bludgeoning, basting, flogging, clubbing, hammering.
2. defeat, trouncing, rout, vanquishment, SI. shellacking; conquest, subjugation, overthrow, overpowering; repulse, rebuff, thwarting; perdition, destruction, ruin, deathblow.
3. pulsation, pulsating, pulse, pulsing, palpitation, palpitating, throb, throbbing.