| means | (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
bang up, smash up, smash |
| means | (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
pulsate, quiver, beat |
| means | (verb) move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
flap, beat |
| means | (verb) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
overcome, have the best, get the best |
| means | (verb) move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking"
shake, agitate |
| means | (verb) get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
best, trump, outdo, scoop, outflank |
| means | (verb) occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose"
take up, take, strike, assume |
| means | (verb) be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"
moil, churn, boil, roil |
| means | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"
outdo, outmatch, outperform, outgo, surmount, exceed, outstrip, surpass |
| means | (verb) defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
worst, rack up, pip, mop up, whip |
| means | (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
jar, jolt |
| means | (verb) move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
budge, agitate, shift, stir |
| means | (verb) excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"
outplay |
| means | (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
flap, undulate, roll, wave |
| means | (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion; "his face is twitching"
twitch, jerk |
| means | (verb) to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
stir, arouse |
| means | (verb) move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
pound, beat, thump |
| means | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
crush, vanquish, beat out, trounce, shell, beat |
| means | (verb) hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
beat |
| means | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
thrash, cream, drub, clobber, lick, bat |
| means | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"
get over, overcome, subdue, master, surmount |
| means | (verb) fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"
tumble, whirl, whirl around |
| means | (verb) hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder"
dab, pat |
| means | (verb) deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"
smack, thwack |
| means | (verb) win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
overcome, get the better of, defeat |
| means | (verb) strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him"
buff, buffet |
| means | (verb) twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
flick, ruffle, riffle |
| means | (verb) deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room"
strike hard, knock |
| means | (verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
bat |
| means | (verb) shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
bump around, jar, shake up |
| means | (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"
pull through, survive, make it, pull round, come through |
| means | (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
thump, poke, pound |
| means | (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
throb, pulsate, pulse |
| means | (verb) move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
flap |
| means | (verb) make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
beat |
| means | (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
work over, beat, beat up |
| means | (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"
strike |
| means | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"
break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize |
| means | (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
tap, rap, knock, pink |
| means | (verb) move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
thresh, flail |
| means | (verb) have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
bat |
| means | (verb) use a bat; "Who's batting?"
bat |
| means | (verb) beat out a rhythm
tap out, thump out, beat out |
| means | (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
beat |
| means | (verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
hit |
| means | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard
flail, thresh, thrash, lam |
| means | (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
lather, slash, lash, whip, trounce, welt, strap, flog |
| means | (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise
rattle |
| means | (verb) drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
hit, strike |
| means | (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
beat |
| means | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
waste, lay waste to, ravage, desolate, scourge, devastate |
| means | (verb) create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"
shell, blast |