tobeat

From Middle English tobeten, from Old English tōbēatan (“to beat severely, beat to death”), equivalent to to- +‎ beat.

• IPA^(key): /təˈbiːt/

tobeat (third-person singular simple present tobeats, present participle tobeating, simple past tobeat, past participle tobeaten)

1. (obsolete) To beat excessively.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tobeat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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