Beat Down

Definition: Beat Down

Beat Down

Verb

1. Persuade the seller to accept a lower price: "She beat the merchant down $100".

2. Shine hard; of the sun: "The sun beat down on the hikers".

3. Dislodge from a position; "She beat the dealer down to a much better price".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Beat Down

Barter

Bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle; dicker; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain; (contract).

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Insolence

Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over.

Parsimony

Drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.

Crosswords: Beat Down

Opportunity doesn't knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. (Early Edition; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason. (Onegin; writing credit: Peter Ettedgui; Michael Ignatieff)

Let me in or else I'll beat down your door (Silhouettes; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

But I don't want my kids to see me getting beat down (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "beat down": beat down smb. in price ♦ beat down the price of ♦ To beat down. Additional references.

Albanian

ul çmim (depreciate, depress, underbid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сломявам (break, dash, wear down), отбивам от, подбивам (injure, kid, make fun of, underbid, undercut, undermine), изпотрошвам. (various references)

French

taper (beat). (various references)

German

stechen (be prickly, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, stick, sting, take, take the trick, twinge), niederschlagen (cast down, down, fell, flatten, knock down, knockdown, lower, precipitate, put down, quell, suppress, to condense, to knock down, to knockdown, turn down, waive), niederprasseln (hail down, hammer down, lash down, rain down), herunterprasseln (rattle down), herunterbrennen (burn away, burn down, burn out). (various references)

Hungarian

lever (down, strike down, strike off, subdue, to beat down, to drive in a pile, to knock off, to overwhelm, to pull down, to put down, to repress, to rout, to unman). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

買い叩く (to beat down prices), 照付ける (to beat down on, to blaze down on, to shine down upon), 照りつける (to beat down on, to blaze down on, to shine down upon), 照り付ける (to beat down on, to blaze down on, to shine down upon), 値切る (to beat down the price, to drive a bargain, to haggle), 売り叩く (to beat down prices). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねぎる (to beat down the price, to drive a bargain, to haggle), うりたたく (to beat down prices), かいたたく (to beat down prices), てりつける (to beat down on, to blaze down on, to shine down upon). (various references)

Manx

bwoalley sheese (hammer down, smite down). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatbay ownday

Romanian

reduce preţul (take off), descuraja (bring low, cast down, chill, damp, dash, daunt, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), înfrânge (bear down, best, break, curb, defeat, foil, knock, master, overcome, overmatch, overpower, pip, stifle, vanquish, worsen, worst). (various references)

Spanish

vencer (bear down, beat, best, break, break down, carry, conquer, defeat, discomfit, expire, fall due on, fall in, get over, get the best of, get the better of, master, outface, overcome, overpower, tear, win), persuadir (argue, bring, bring around, bring round, convince, get, get round, induce, jockey, lead, lure out, persuade), conseguir rebajar, acamar, abatir (abase, break, bring down, cast down, demolish, depress, lay, leak, raze, tip, tumble). (various references)

Swedish

slå ner (cast down, clobber, flatten, knock down, lay out, strike down, swoop down). (various references)

Turkish

bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), bardaktan boşanırcasına yağmak (bucket, come down in sheets, lash, lash down, pelt, rain cats and dogs, rain in torrents, teem), yere sermek (down, grass, ground, kayo, knock down, knock galley-west, lay low, lay out, lay smb. low, prostrate, send smb. flying, send smb. sprawling), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), fiyat kırmak (cut under, knock down, knock off, lower the price, undercut, undersell), düşürmek (cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip). (various references)

Ukrainian

звалити з ніг, збити (bring down, knock down). (various references)

abattre, rabattre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: downbeat.

-2 letters: atoned, boated, donate, wanted, wonted.

-3 letters: abode, adobe, adown, anode, anted, atone, awned, baned, bated, baton, beano, beton, boned, bowed, dawen, dewan, endow, noted, oaten, owned, tawed, toned, towed, waned.

-4 letters: abed, abet, aeon, anew, ante, awed, bade, band, bane, bate, bawd, bead, bean, beat, bend, bent, beta, boat, bode, bond, bone, bota.

+1 letter: downbeats.