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To beat off

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to repel or drive back.

See also: Beat



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Our only hope, he said, lay in reaching his tribe which was quite strong enough in their mountain fastness to beat off any number of Sagoths.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He did not have much faith in their ability to beat off a hungry man-eater, though he did believe, implicitly, that their lives would go bravely before hers in case of an attack.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
Frantically he fought to beat off the lad that he might turn upon the fearsome thing at his back.
The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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