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Verb: beat down  beet dawn
  1. Persuade the seller to accept a lower price
    - bargain down
     
  2. Shine hard
    "The sun beat down on the hikers"
     
  3. Dislodge from a position

Derived forms: beats down, beating down, beat down, beaten down

Type of: beam, chaffer, dislodge, haggle, higgle [archaic], huckster [N. Amer], reposition, shift, shine

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