Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I.
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2. Hammer, forge.
3. Pound, bruise, pulverize, comminute, bray, break in pieces.
4. Batter, smite, pelt, dash against.
5. Conquer, overcome, subdue, vanquish, overpower, defeat, checkmate.
6. [Colloquial.] Excel, surpass, outdo, cut out.
Beat, v. n. 1. Pulsate, throb.
2. Dash, strike.
3. (Naut.) Go against the wind, go a zigzag course.
Beat, n. 1. Stroke, striking, blow.
2. Pulsation, throb, beating.
3. Round, course.
Beat all hollow, [Low.] Surpass completely, excel beyond all question.
Beat back, Repulse, repel, drive back.
Beat down, 1. Batter, overturn, destroy, break, throw down.
2. Subdue, overpower, overcome, crush, put down.
3. Press down (by blows), lay flat.
Beaten, a. 1. Worn by use, much travelled.
2. Hackneyed, trite, common, common-place.
Beatific, a. Ravishing, enchanting.
Beatification, n. 1. Beatifying (especially the act of the pope in declaring a person happy after death).
2. Bliss, beatitude.
Beatify, v. a. Enrapture, enchant, transport, enravish, make happy.
Beating, n. 1. Striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommelling, caning, flagellation, bastinado.
2. Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing.
Beat into, [Colloquial.] Teach (by laborious effort), instil, inculcate, implant.
Beatitude, n. Happiness, bliss, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatification, transport, rapture, heavenly joy.
Be at loggerheads, Come to blows, fall to loggerheads, go to loggerheads.
Beat out, 1. Flatten (by hammering).
2. Exhaust, overcome (with fatigue).
Beat the air, Make vain efforts, try in vain, lash the waves, fish in the air, milk the ram.
Beau, n. 1. Fop, dandy, coxcomb, exquisite, macaroni, popinjay, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man of dress.
2. Gallant, lover, admirer, suitor, sweetheart, cicisbeo.
Beau ideal, [Fr.] Ideal beauty, ideal excellence, ideal standard.
Beau-monde, n. [Fr.] Gay world, fashionable world, people of fashion, genteel people.
Beauteous, a. [Poetical.] Beautiful.
Beauties, n. pl. 1. Anthology, selections, elegant extracts.
2. Beautiful persons (especially beautiful women).
Beautiful, a. Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, pretty, beauteous.
Beautify, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, bedizen, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, trick out, set off, make beautiful.
Beauty, n. 1. Elegance, grace, symmetry.
2. Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.
3. Fine part, special grace, particular excellence.
4. Beautiful person (especially a beautiful woman).
Beaux-esprits, n. pl. [Fr.] Men of wit, men of genius.
Beaver, n. 1. Fur of the beaver.
2. Hat.
3. Face-guard (of a helmet).
Be beat out, Be exhausted, be fagged, be greatly fatigued.
Be brought to bed, Be confined, lie in, be in child-bed.
Becafico, n. Fig-eater, fig-pecker, greater pettychaps, garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
Be called, Be named, go by the name of, take the name of, pass under the name of.
Becalm, v. a. 1. Quiet, soothe, calm, tranquillize, pacify, make calm, make tranquil.
2. Detain by a calm (as a ship).
Be cast away, 1. Be thrown aside.
2. Be shipwrecked.
Because, conj. 1. For, since, as, for the cause that, for the reason that, on this account that, inasmuch as.
2. On account, by reason.
Beche-de-mer, n. [Fr.] Trepang, sea-cucumber, sea-slug.
Beck, n. Nod, bow.
Beckon, v. n. Make a sign, give a signal.
Beckon, v. a. Call by a sign or signal.
Becloud, v. a. Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, cloud.
Become, v. n. 1. Be.
2. Change to, be changed to, be converted into, get to be, come to be.
Become, v. a. Suit, befit, be suitable to, be proper for, be appropriate to.
Becoming, a. 1. Fit, proper, suitable, meet, appropriate, congruous, right, seemly.
2. Comely, graceful, neat, pretty.
Become of, Be the fate of, be the end of, be the final condition of.
Be confined, 1. Be restrained, be shut up, be shut in.
2. Be brought to bed, lie in, be in child-bed.
Bed, n. 1. Couch, berth, resting-place, place to sleep in.
2. Raised plot (of ground).
3. Layer, stratum, seam, vein.
Bed, v. a. Embed.
Bedaub, v. a. Smear, daub, besmear, soil, daub over.
Bedeck, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, beautify, ornament, deck, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, bedizen, set out, set off, trick out.
Bedew, v. a. Moisten, wet, damp, dampen.
Bedim, v. a. Darken, dim, obscure, cloud, becloud.
Bedizen, v. a. Adorn (gaudily), deck, bedeck.
Bedlam, n. Madhouse, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.
Bedlamite, n. Madman, lunatic, maniac, crazy person, insane person.
Bedouin, n. Nomadic Arab.
Bedridden, a. Confined to the bed.
Beef, n. Flesh of neat-cattle.
Bee-house, n. Apiary, beehive.
Bee-line, n. Straight line, right line, shortest distance, most direct line.
Bee-moth, n. Wax-moth.
Beetle, v. n. Protrude, project, jut, jut out, hang over.