BEAT IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beat in mean? 

• BEAT IN (verb)
  The verb BEAT IN has 1 sense:

1. teach by drills and repetition

  Familiarity information: BEAT IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAT IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teach by drills and repetition

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

beat in; drill in; hammer in; ram down

Hypernyms (to "beat in" is one way to...):

drill (teach by repetition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

There’s Will Wood, that I beat in forty rounds in the thick of a snowstorm down Navestock way, ’e drives a ’ackney.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cilia beat in unison (about 1,000 strokes per minute) and in a wave-like fashion, thereby propelling mucus and entrapped foreign material toward the oropharynx for expectoration or swallowing.

(Ciliated Bronchial Epithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The spacecraft's fateful dive is the final beat in the mission's Grand Finale, 22 weekly dives, which began in late April, through the gap between Saturn and its rings.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The wind roared down the chimney, the rain beat in torrents against the windows, and everything seemed to speak the awfulness of her situation.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)