Meaning of BEATEN
| Pronunciation: | | 'beetn
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- [adj] beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome"
- [adj] decisively defeated in combat
- [adj] formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
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| | Synonyms: | | abused, battered, conquered, defeated, ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated, overcome, overthrown, overwhelmed, routed, vanquished |
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| | Definition: | | \Beat"en\, a.
1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. ``A broad
and beaten way.'' --Milton. ``Beaten gold.'' --Shak.
2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
3. Exhausted; tired out.
4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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| | Related Terms: | | all in, all up with, automatic, beat, beat up, bested, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bone-weary, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, bushed, carbonated, chiffon, confounded, constant, dead, dead-and-alive, deadbeat, dead-tired, defeated, discomfited, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in, done up, down, drained, ebullient, effervescent, exhausted, fagged out, fallen, fixed, fizzy, floored, frequent, gone, habitual, hackneyed, hors de combat, knocked out, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, persistent, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, puffed, put to rout, ready to drop, recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routed, routine, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spent, spumescent, stampeded, stereotyped, tired out, tired to death, trimmed, trite, trounced, tuckered out, undone, upset, used up, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, washed-up, weary unto death, well-trodden, well-worn, whacked, whelmed, whipped, wiped out, worn-out, worsted |
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