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beaten

American  
[beet-n] / ˈbit n /

adjective

  1. formed or shaped by blows; hammered.

    a dish of beaten brass.

  2. much trodden; commonly used.

    a beaten path.

  3. defeated; vanquished; thwarted.

  4. overcome by exhaustion; fatigued by hard work, intense activity, etc.

  5. (of food) whipped up, pounded, pulverized, or the like.

    adding three beaten eggs.

idioms

  1. off the beaten track / path, novel; uncommon; out of the ordinary.

    a tiny shop that was off the beaten track.
beaten British  
/ ˈbiːtən /

adjective

  1. defeated or baffled

  2. shaped or made thin by hammering

    a bowl of beaten gold

  3. much travelled; well trodden (esp in the phrase the beaten track )

    1. in or into unfamiliar territory

    2. out of the ordinary; unusual

  5. (of food) mixed by beating; whipped

  6. tired out; exhausted

  7. hunting (of woods, undergrowth, etc) scoured so as to rouse game

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • underbeaten adjective
  • well-beaten adjective

Etymology

Origin of beaten

before 1100; Middle English beten, Old English bēaten, past participle of bēatan to beat

Example Sentences

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Oral Wegovy may have beaten Foundayo to the shelves, too, but Lilly figured out how to distinguish its pill another way.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

There’s the “war’s over” trade, and there’s the short-term scramble to trade the two-week cease-fire and buy assets that got beaten up by the war, like airline stocks.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

No. 1 St. John Bosco, No. 4 Corona and No. 6 Huntington Beach were all beaten in first-round games.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Leeds last reached the FA Cup last four in 1987, when they were beaten 3-2 by eventual winners Coventry City at Hillsborough, and lifted the trophy for the only time in 1972.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

We hiked through the sparse woods, making our way carefully down the beaten path we had created that summer, the summer of the mariposas.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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