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sustaining, supporting, endurance, enduring: Thomas Jefferson
considered the government of England totally without morality
and insolent beyond bearing. 3 aspect; relation, reference,
relationship, correlation, pertinence, relevance, connection,
relevancy, applicability, application, germaneness,
significance: The legal bearing of the case will become obvious
in court. It is unclear exactly what bearing your remarks have
on the situation. 4 Often, bearings. direction, orientation,
(relative) position: The bearing of the lighthouse is now 180ø.
Which way is north? - I have lost my bearings entirely.
beast n. 1 animal, creature, being: He loves all the beasts of the
field, of the sea, and of the air. 2 brute, savage, animal,
monster: I've seen that beast hitting his wife in public.
beastly adj. 1 uncivilized, uncultivated, uncivil, rude, crude,
boorish, unrefined, coarse; cruel, inhuman, savage, barbaric,
barbarous, bestial, brutal: Priscilla treats Cyril in a beastly
way. 2 abominable, intolerable, offensive, unpleasant, awful,
terrible, ghastly, horrid, disagreeable, horrible, hateful,
execrable; foul, vile, nasty, rotten, dirty, filthy: If this
beastly weather keeps up, the plane may be delayed.
beat v. 1 strike, pound, bash, smite, batter, pummel or pommel,
belabour, pelt, clout, thrash, give (someone) a thrashing or
beating, drub, manhandle, thump, whack, cane, scourge, whip,
bludgeon, club, cudgel, fustigate; whip, flog, lash , Colloq
clobber, wallop, give (someone) a once-over: At first he
refused to tell them, but then they beat it out of him. 2
defeat, best, worst, win (out) over, vanquish, trounce, rout,
outdo, subdue, overcome, overwhelm, pre-empt; surpass, conquer,
crush, master, US beat out: Can they beat Manchester United for
the cup? He first beat the Danes, then the Russians. 3 throb,
pulsate, palpitate, pound, thump: I could feel my heart beating
against my ribs. 4 Nautical tack: Close-hauled, the sloop was
beating to windward against the howling gale. 5 hammer, forge,
shape, form, fashion, make, mould: They shall beat their swords
into ploughshares. 6 mix, whip, stir, blend: Beat two eggs,
then add the flour and sugar. 7 tread, wear, trample: The
hunters beat a path through the forest. 8 beat it. depart,
leave, abscond, run off or away, Slang US take it on the lam,
lam out of here, US hit the road: You'd better beat it before
the cops come. 9 beat off. drive off or away, rout: We beat