Beat and Dab

Beat

Beat noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.

Usage example: delivered one hard beat on the drums

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Dab and beat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dab" instead the word "Beat" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: beaten, beating, beater, beatable

Dab noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.

Usage example: a bear can knock a man down with a simple dab of his paw

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Beat and dab are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead the word "Dab" as a noun or a verb.

huge	huge beat	huge dab
little	little beat	little dab

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Jadzia Dax is a dab hand with a bat'leth, and Kira — well, Kira once beat the shit out of a serial killer while the equivalent of nine months pregnant.

Source: Action Girl / Live-Action TV

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