beaten

[ beet-n ]

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adjective

formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
much trodden; commonly used: a beaten path.

defeated; vanquished; thwarted.
overcome by exhaustion; fatigued by hard work, intense activity, etc.
(of food) whipped up, pounded, pulverized, or the like: adding three beaten eggs.

Idioms about beaten

off the beaten track / path, novel; uncommon; out of the ordinary: a tiny shop that was off the beaten track.

Origin of beaten

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

Other words from beaten

un·der·beat·en, adjective
well-beaten, adjective

Words Nearby beaten

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How to use beaten in a sentence

The peculiar pattern of beaten teams coming to life in the postseason seems to lie in the high variability of single college basketball results.
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The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.
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Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.
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Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.
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For these infractions of the Holiday spirit, they were arrested and in some cases beaten in the street by Copenhagen police.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

She said that everyone she has talked to who was detained was beaten.
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Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.
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He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.
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An old weather-beaten bear-hunter stepped forward, squirting out his tobacco juice with all imaginable deliberation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. | Various
A border feud at Reedsquair, between the English and Scottish marchmen, in which the former were completely beaten.
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British Dictionary definitions for beaten

beaten

/ (ˈbiːtən) /

adjective

defeated or baffled
shaped or made thin by hammering: a bowl of beaten gold

much travelled; well trodden (esp in the phrase the beaten track)
off the beaten track
- in or into unfamiliar territory
- out of the ordinary; unusual
(of food) mixed by beating; whipped
tired out; exhausted
hunting (of woods, undergrowth, etc) scoured so as to rouse game

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