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Verb: beat out  beet awt
  1. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
    - beat, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
     
  2. Beat out a rhythm
    - tap out, thump out

Derived forms: beat out, beats out, beaten out, beating out

Type of: beat, defeat, get the better of, overcome

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