to beat; to defeat / to beat up / to fight / to whisk or whip (eggs) / to thresh / to shuffle

to mint coins, to coin, to issue money, to issue currency

(dated) to give the cold shoulder to, to cold-shoulder [+ à (someone)]

(figuratively) to go into decline, to wane (be in difficulty); to be on the rocks, on the skids

(idiomatic, of heavy artillery) to reduce to rubble, to give a pounding / (idiomatic, figuratively) to tackle (an urgent issue), to strike at the heart of (a problem)

to be in full swing

(music) to beat time, to keep time

(military) to retreat, to beat a retreat

to beat wildly, to pound furiously

(formal, literary) to beat one's breast, to admit one's guilt, to acknowledge one's faults and wrongs, to make one's mea culpa