beat out

1. 1.

   come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

   “Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”

   “We beat the competition”

   “Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game”

   Synonymsbeatcrushshelltrouncevanquish

   Broaderget the better of

   Narroweroutpointwalk overeliminateworstwhompget the bestspread-eagleget the jumpcheatsurpass
2. 2.

   beat out a rhythm

   Synonymstap outthump out

   Broaderbeat

Questions about beat out

What does beat out mean?

beat out means "come out better in a competition, race, or conflict". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for beat out?

Close synonyms include beat, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish. 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 out a common word?

beat out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.