beat about

1. 1.

   search anxiously

   Synonymscast aboutcast around

   Broaderresearch

Questions about beat about

What does beat about mean?

beat about means "search anxiously".

What is another word for beat about?

Close synonyms include cast about, cast around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beat about a common word?

beat about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.