Apt rhyme for "defeat"
The crossword clue "Apt rhyme for "defeat"" is answered by BEAT, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
BEAT
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Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BEAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by BEAT, most used first.
- Exhausted - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Tempo - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Tuckered out - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Defeat - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Rhythm - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Pulsate - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Trounce - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Outscore - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Defeated - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Thrash - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Cop's route - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Worn out - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Kerouac's generation - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
- Bushed - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Dog-tired - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Pooped - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
- Ready to hit the hay - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- A drummer keeps it - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- All in - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Cadence - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Completely exhausted - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Ready for the sack - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Throb - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Wiped out - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Cop's rounds - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Really tired - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Vanquished - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
- "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
- Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
- Look for - SEEK, used 172 times
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