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beat it

VERB
leave hastily
Synonyms
WEAK
go away hurry away leave scram shoo skedaddle vamoose

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"I don't know how another show could beat it."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Gold could get close to $5000 per ounce in 2026 and beat it in 2027, predicts Deutsche Bank.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025

But Martin, working with pathologist Larry J. Stowell, was able to pinpoint the cause of that “rapid blight”—a fungus, Labyrinthula terrestris—and quickly work up a program to beat it back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The director credits his touring drummer, Scott Seiver, for helping him beat it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

The glass of mead was now knocking quite insistently on the side of Vernon’s head; he attempted to beat it away.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling