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sustaining, supporting, endurance, enduring: Thomas Jefferson<br />

considered the government of England totally without morality<br />

and insolent beyond bearing. 3 aspect; relation, reference,<br />

relationship, correlation, pertinence, relevance, connection,<br />

relevancy, applicability, application, germaneness,<br />

significance: The legal bearing of the case will become obvious<br />

in court. It is unclear exactly what bearing your remarks have<br />

on the situation. 4 Often, bearings. direction, orientation,<br />

(relative) position: The bearing of the lighthouse is now 180ø.<br />

Which way is north? - I have lost my bearings entirely.<br />

beast<br />

n. 1 animal, creature, being: He loves all the beasts of the<br />

field, of the sea, and of the air. 2 brute, savage, animal,<br />

monster: I've seen that beast hitting his wife in public.<br />

beastly adj. 1 uncivilized, uncultivated, uncivil, rude, crude,<br />

boorish, unrefined, coarse; cruel, inhuman, savage, barbaric,<br />

barbarous, bestial, brutal: Priscilla treats Cyril in a beastly<br />

way. 2 abominable, intolerable, offensive, unpleasant, awful,<br />

terrible, ghastly, horrid, disagreeable, horrible, hateful,<br />

execrable; foul, vile, nasty, rotten, dirty, filthy: If this<br />

beastly weather keeps up, the plane may be delayed.<br />

beat<br />

v. 1 strike, pound, bash, smite, batter, pummel or pommel,<br />

belabour, pelt, clout, thrash, give (someone) a thrashing or<br />

beating, drub, manhandle, thump, whack, cane, scourge, whip,<br />

bludgeon, club, cudgel, fustigate; whip, flog, lash , Colloq<br />

clobber, wallop, give (someone) a once-over: At first he<br />

refused to tell them, but then they beat it out of him. 2<br />

defeat, best, worst, win (out) over, vanquish, trounce, rout,<br />

outdo, subdue, overcome, overwhelm, pre-empt; surpass, conquer,<br />

crush, master, US beat out: Can they beat Manchester United for<br />

the cup? He first beat the Danes, then the Russians. 3 throb,<br />

pulsate, palpitate, pound, thump: I could feel my heart beating<br />

against my ribs. 4 Nautical tack: Close-hauled, the sloop was<br />

beating to windward against the howling gale. 5 hammer, forge,<br />

shape, form, fashion, make, mould: They shall beat their swords<br />

into ploughshares. 6 mix, whip, stir, blend: Beat two eggs,<br />

then add the flour and sugar. 7 tread, wear, trample: The<br />

hunters beat a path through the forest. 8 beat it. depart,<br />

leave, abscond, run off or away, Slang US take it on the lam,<br />

lam out of here, US hit the road: You'd better beat it before<br />

the cops come. 9 beat off. drive off or away, rout: We beat

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