'Beaten' definitions:
Definition of 'beaten'
From: WordNet
adjective
Formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
adjective
Much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path"
Definition of 'Beaten'
From: GCIDE
- Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.]
- 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. [1913 Webster]
- They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. [1913 Webster]
- To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. [1913 Webster]
- A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To tread, as a path. [1913 Webster]
- Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to. [1913 Webster]
- He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. [1913 Webster]
- Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that. [1913 Webster]
- 11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state. [1913 Webster]
- To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition.
- To beat off, to repel or drive back.
- To beat out, to extend by hammering.
- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." --South.
- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.
- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beaten'
From: GCIDE
- Beaten \Beat"en\ (b[=e]t"'n; 95), a.
- 1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." --Milton. "Beaten gold." --Shak. "off the beaten track." [1913 Webster]
- 2. Vanquished; defeated; conquered; baffled. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Exhausted; tired out. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beaten'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- dead-tired,
- deadbeat,
- 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