beat out
verb- To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum. · The drummer beat out a steady slow march.
- To extinguish. · He managed to beat the flames out with a blanket.
- To defeat by a narrow margin. · She beat out three other contenders to claim the prize.
- To work out fully.
- To make gold or silver leaf out of solid metal.
- To bash a hole in.
- To reach base after a bunt or groundball.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, out.
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By night she was, as she expressed it, “beat out.”
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