Beat and Read

Beat

Beat verb - To strike repeatedly.

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Read and beat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Read" instead a verb "Beat".

Nearby Words: beaten, beating, beater, beatable

Read verb - To go over and mentally take in the content of.

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Beat and read are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead a verb "Read".

old	old beat	old read
good	good beat	good read
nice	nice beat	nice read
best	best beat	best read
Other adjectives: long, short, fast, perfect, standard, original, light, powerful, little, bad, quick, excellent, different, awesome.

people	beat people	read people
rest	beat rest	read rest
time	beat time	read time
way	beat way	read way
Other words: story, version, times.

After this, Delia and Eric read the dictionary so they can beat him, and their scrabble board is filled with words such as larum, girn, ghat, revet and valgus.

Source: Scrabble Babble
So far, we've had Trigon getting beat up by Asuka, Rei, Cyborg Superman, Doctor Doom 2099, and a slew of others by the usage of Yellow Lantern rings... actually, just go read the summaries there.

Source: Massive Multiplayer Crossover / Fan Works
He beat Ra's Al Ghul in chess, having never even seen a chessboard before, only read extensively about the game.

Source: Characters / Batman Rogues Gallery Part 1 aka: Harley Quinn

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