beat oneself
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat.
Example Sentences
- "It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish beating themselves on the floor."
Usage
Inflected Forms
beats oneself (present, singular)
beating oneself (participle, present)
beaten oneself (participle, past)