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beaten
[ beet-n ]
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.
beaten
/ ˈ²ú¾±Ë³ÙÉ™²Ô /
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
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ôd±ð°ù·²ú±ð²¹³Ùî€½Ä²Ô adjective
- ·É±ð±ô±ô-²ú±ð²¹³Ùî€½Ä²Ô adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- off the beaten track / path, novel; uncommon; out of the ordinary:
a tiny shop that was off the beaten track.
Example Sentences
On home soil in Turkey, he has been beaten by the police several times while taking pictures, he says - including on World Peace Day – and has been detained "so many times".
Militiamen have been accused of running detention centres where migrants are beaten to death or starved, and the Libyan coastguard is accused of sometimes filming people in the sea rather than rescuing them.
The highest temperature recorded so far this year was 21.3C in Northolt, west London, and Chertsey, Surrey, on 20 March - but that figure is expected to be beaten on Friday.
They have had a good season, and beaten all the teams in the top five apart from Liverpool, but it is in danger of fizzling out.
A beaten favourite for both the Galway Plate and Kerry National but form of his Leopardstown win in December reads well and now takes a big step up in trip.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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