Beat and Promote

Beat

Beat verb - To prevent from achieving a goal.
Usage example: you beat me to it

Promote is an antonym for beat.

Nearby Words: beaten, beating, beater, beatable

Promote

Promote verb - To move higher in rank or position.

Beat is an antonym for promote.

Common collocations

character beat character promote character
people beat people promote people
system beat system promote system
way beat way promote way
Other words: game, version, games.

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Toy Story For a moment, it seems like he will forgive him...but then he starts to try to beat the crud out of him, thanks to Exact Words.Buzz: Even though you tried to terminate me, revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet.
  • Music / BoA (Korea) Fun with Acronyms: BoA is also a backronym for "Beat of Angel." She had issues with this when she began to promote her English debut...she quickly found out that BoA also stood for Bank of America...she was rather annoyed.
  • Angrish / Western Animation In "Drop Beat Dad", when Sour Cream calls out his father Marty for using a rave SC threw to promote a crappy guacamole-flavored soda, he slips into the same gibberish language spoken by his step-father Yellowtail.
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