Overcome Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Overcome crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on October 5 2024 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Overcome has a total of 4 letters.

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Definition

• of Beat
• of Beat
• To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
• To punish by blows; to thrash.
• To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
• To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
• To tread, as a path.
• To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
• To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
• To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
• To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
• To be in agitation or doubt.
• To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
• To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
• To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
• To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
• A stroke; a blow.
• A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
• The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
• A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
• A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
• A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
• A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
• Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

Check the table below for more likely or similar clues and answers related to Overcome crossword clue.

Rank Answer Clue Publisher
99% BEAT Overcome Wall Street Journal
20% GIDDY Overcome with excitement Wall Street Journal
20% INFITS Overcome with hysterical laughter Wall Street Journal
20% PITCHINGWOOZY Overcome by mal de mer? Wall Street Journal
20% LEAP Overcome hurdles, say Wall Street Journal
20% HURDLE Difficulty to overcome Wall Street Journal


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  • Wall Street Journal Crossword, October 5 2024

The answer to Overcome crossword clue is BEAT

There are a total of 4 letters in Overcome crossword clue

The Overcome crossword clue was last seen on October 5 2024 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle


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