Beaten
['biːt(ə)n] or ['bitn]
Definition
(adj.) formed or made thin by hammering; 'beaten gold' .
(adj.) much trodden and worn smooth or bare; 'did not stray from the beaten path' .
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Definition
(-) of Beat
(a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
(a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
(a.) Exhausted; tired out.
(a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
(a.) Tried; practiced.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Worn by use, much travelled.[2]. Hackneyed, trite, common, common-place.
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Examples
- We fought in Segovia at the start of the movement but we were beaten and we ran. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- HER assault was long since over and beaten back. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Austrians were badly beaten at Magenta and Solferino. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The matter can be easily remedied, said the brow-beaten doctor; Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return to London by the morning train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, you have something to gain as well as I, flashed out Crispin fiercely; so if I am beaten, you will not be in a much better condition. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Each one of these is now cut into 150 pieces, each of which is beaten on an anvil till it is about an inch square. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If I had but most distantly imagined such a possibility---- Mrs. Yorke would still have beaten you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- From the sound that we have heard they have attacked and been beaten off. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracts of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock, whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The end of the year saw the French beaten back into France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Roman generals were no match for the Carthaginian, and whenever they met him they were beaten. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Like a stray sheep that wanders over the sleet-beaten hill-side, while the flock is in the pen, and dies before morning-dawn. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Jorkins is very difficult to move from the beaten track. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Denmark had no chance against these Great Powers; she was easily beaten and obliged to relinquish the duchies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Make haste, Mr. Lowten,' Perker called out; 'we shall have the panels beaten in. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Nothing is more amusing than his complete submission when he has been once thoroughly beaten. Plato. The Republic.
- On the highest point stood the church--an ancient, weather-beaten building, with heavy buttresses at its sides, and a clumsy square tower in front. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was going on well--I will not be beaten down--by an inferior woman like her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You don't like being beaten any more than the rest of us do, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- German imperialism, with its organized grip upon education and its close alliance with an aggressive commercialism, was beaten and finished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Therefore he says you are beaten, and not we. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearing its heart out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- These 150 plates are interlaid with pieces of fine vellum about four inches square, and beaten till the gold is extended nearly to the size of the vellum leaves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The dampened and plastic papier maché sheets are beaten into the face of the type form by means of brushes, are then removed, dried, and used as moulds to cast the stereotype plate from. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But they have beaten us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were no beaten paths, and the way was beset with unknown perils; there was no experience to guide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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