To beat or strike repeatedly with or as if with a bat.
From 'be-' plus 'bat' (a club or stick). The prefix intensifies the action of striking, creating a sense of repeated battering or hitting.
This word has an almost onomatopoetic quality—'bebat' sounds like the action itself, rapid striking that echoes in the 'bat-bat-bat' rhythm of the repeated sound.
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