Cryptic crossword clue
Overcome echo in club 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BEAT

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The straight part

We know that "Overcome" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case overcome = beat.

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What does BEAT mean?

1. A stroke; a blow.
2. A pulsation or throb.
3. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
4. A rhythm.
5. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
6. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
7. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
8. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
9. An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
10. That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
11. A precinct.
12. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
13. A low cheat or swindler.
14. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
15. The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
16. A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

1. To hit; strike
2. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
3. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
6. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
9. (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
10. To indicate by beating or drumming.
11. To tread, as a path.
12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
13. To be in agitation or doubt.
14. To make a sound when struck.
15. To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
16. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
17. To arrive at a place before someone.
18. To have sexual intercourse.
19. To rob.

1. Exhausted
2. Dilapidated, beat up
3. Fabulous
4. Boring
5. (of a person) ugly

1. A beatnik.

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