Crossword clues for beaten
beaten
- Kind of biscuit
- Taken down
- (Of food) whipped
- Stirred enough
- Scrambled, as eggs
- On the losing end
- Off the -- path
- Much-used, as a path
- Much trodden
- Made thin by hammering
- Like whisked eggs
- Like some paths or now-clean rugs
- Like some paths
- Like eggs, in some recipes
- Like eggs in meringues
- Like batter
- Like a used drum
- Like a loser
- Down at the final buzzer
- Down at the end
- Dined in local, coming back the worse for wear
- Hammered
- Whipped up
- Licked
- Weatherworn
- Like meringue
- Vanquished
- Defeated
- Much traveled
- Like losers, by definition
- Mental picture
- Thrown for a loss
- Like many a path
- Like eggs in omelets
- Like some paths or rugs
- Kind of path
- Stamped like eggs can be?
- British taken in and defeated
- Unsuccessful target for dieter who's a twelve?
- Knocked off
- Like some eggs
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beaten \Beat"en\ (b[=e]t"'n; 95), a.
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. ``A broad and beaten way.''
--Milton. ``Beaten gold.''
--Shak. ``off the beaten track.''Vanquished; defeated; conquered; baffled.
Exhausted; tired out.
Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
Tried; practiced. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.
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.]
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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.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
--Ex. xxx. 36.They did beat the gold into thin plates.
--Ex. xxxix. 3. To punish by blows; to thrash.
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To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.
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To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.
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To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.
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To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle.
--Prescott.For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that.
--M. Arnold. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
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To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
--Locke. (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.
to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
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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. 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.)
To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse.
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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.
Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hammered" (of metal, etc.), c.1300, from past participle of beat (v.), which alternates with beat with some distinctions of sense. Meaning "defeated" is from 1560s; that of "repeatedly struck" is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
1 defeated 2 repeatedly struck 3 (anchor: cookery)''(cookery - of a liquid)'' mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement v
(past participle of beat English)
WordNet
adj. beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome" [syn: battered]
formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path" [syn: beaten(a)]
adj. very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
[also: beaten]
See beat
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" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat]
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: rhythm, musical rhythm]
a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior [syn: beatnik]
the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, cadence]
a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"
the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
[also: beaten]
v. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish]
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" [syn: beat up, work over]
hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: pound, thump]
shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, thrum]
glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" [syn: flap]
sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind"
stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" [syn: scramble]
strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: bunk]
make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: tick, ticktock, ticktack]
move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: flap]
indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate, quiver]
make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest"
produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, circumvent]
be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: exhaust, wash up, tucker, tucker out]
[also: beaten]
Wikipedia
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.