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Unsuccessful target for dieter who's a twelve?
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beaten
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES beaten senseless ▪ He had been beaten senseless . deservedly beaten ▪ Arsenal were deservedly beaten 2–1 by Leeds. let yourself be beaten/persuaded/fooled etc ▪ I stupidly let myself be persuaded to take part in ...
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n. a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" [syn: round ] the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" ...
Usage examples of beaten.
The tide ebbed and left his ship aground, while the other vessels were beaten back.
This archive is mostly odds and ends collected later by the Turks as they were gradually beaten back from the edges of their empire.
But when once the Portuguese were beaten the allies fell out among themselves, the Dutch got the upper hand, and, in 1623, killed off the English traders at Amboyna, one of the Moluccas.
It is no disgrace, no more than for your adventurous reveller to fall by some inauspicious chance in his galliard, or for some subtile politic to undertake the bastinado, that the state might think worthily of him, and respect him as a man well beaten to the world.
He is the beatenest man to get off jokes I ever knowed, to be as old as he is.
When he had been well beaten they would wrap him up in his pelisse, and throw him upon his plank bedstead, leaving him to digest his drink.
The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea.
Andrew Cabot, on his feet, holding on to the chair-back in front of him where Mason Broyles sat, white-faced and grim, and beaten.
The mackerel may be dipped in beaten egg before it is dipped in flour.
Much ill was brought to my sisters by such doing, and now they lie as prisoners to the strength of males, used by them, beaten by them, filled with their seed so that nearly all are with child.
So that day they fought all over the plain, and a great many died, both of the Aliens and the Markmen, and though these last were victorious, yet when the sun went down there still were the Aliens abiding in the Upper-mark, fenced by their wain-burg, beaten, and much diminished in number, but still a host of men: while of the Markmen many had fallen, and many more were hurt, because the Aliens were good bowmen.
Drain, sprinkle with flour, dip in egg yolks beaten smooth with a little melted butter, then in crumbs.
Take from the fire and add the yolks of four eggs, beaten with the juice of a lemon, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and a pinch of paprika.
Take from the fire, add the yolks of four eggs beaten with four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, the juice of a lemon, and a tablespoonful of minced parsley.
And as foreigners have thus everywhere beaten some of the natives, we may safely conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted such intruders.