Beaten

Definition: Beaten

Beaten

Adjective

1. Decisively defeated in combat.

2. Beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome".

3. Formed or made thin by hammering: "beaten gold".

4. Much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beaten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Beaten

Conformity

Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance.

Impulse

Fall into a rut, fall into a custom; (conform to); tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.

Common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.

Method

Roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut; (mid-course); carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal; (conduit); street; (abode); speedway.

Unconformity

Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.

Fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.

Crosswords: Beaten

Our regiment got beaten in the finals last December, but I mean to win this year (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

You are beaten! It is useless to resist (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

But I'm not beaten yet. You've won the battle, but I'm about to win the wardrobe (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes)

Even if that is a woman, it looks like she was beaten with an ugly stick (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Have you ever been beaten half to death by wooden rakes (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray)

We're beaten and blown by the wind (Where the Streets Have no Name; performing artist: U2)

Beaten (1924)

The Beaten Path (1913)

Far from the Beaten Track (1912)

Dave Koz: Off the Beaten Path (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Everything Can Be Beaten (reference)

• Fodor's Kenya and Tanzania: The Guide for All Budgets Where to Stay, Eat, and Explore on and Off the Beaten Path (Fodor's Kenya and Tanzania) (reference)

• Get Better or Get Beaten (reference)

• Heidegger: Off the Beaten Track (reference)

• On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dave Koz: Off The Beaten Path (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Off the Beaten Path (reference)

• Off the Beaten Track (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. Consistency sticky (tenacious). When teased with loop, colony will stand up like beaten egg white. Credit: CDC.

The oyster: The oyster family is not what it was, but we've got the lobster beaten to a stand still. Credit: Library of Congress.

John Lewis talks with fellow "Freedom fighter" James Zwerg who was brutally beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, after riding into town on a Greyhound bus. Credit: Library of Congress.

Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Clarence Weems, a young co-operator on the farm. He remembers the evictions in Arkansas, for his father was beaten and disappeared. Credit: Library of Congress.

Attica : we are not beasts, and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is a poor man’s freedom; the more he is beaten, the more he implores, and he prostrates himself as he goes down in the struggle, so that he may come back a little with his teeth. (Second Treatise of Government)

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They are democrats that they may not be beaten, and royalists that they may not fight

Stephen knelt down quickly pressing his beaten hands to his sides

Beyond the fence, the corn lay beaten down by wind and heat and drought, and the cups where leaf joined stalk were filled with dust

I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracks of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves

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Business

On the way to Tuxtla, the priests report having been beaten by the police. (references)

Nonetheless, there are many credible reports that prisoners are tortured, beaten, and otherwise mistreated. (references)

Informal surveys by women's groups indicate that 20 percent of women may have been beaten by their husbands. (references)

Children

Georgia

He reported seeing other children being beaten. (references)

Mozambique

Street children sometimes are beaten by police and frequently are victims of sexual abuse. (references)

Japan

In December the Fukuoka District Court ruled that the Jojima Municipal and Fukuoka Prefectural governments had not taken sufficient action in the case of a boy who committed suicide in 1996 after being harassed and beaten by classmates and ordered the governments to pay $79,095 (10 million yen) in compensation to the boy's parents. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

They were beaten and denied food. (references)

China

They reported being beaten while in custody. (references)

Pakistan

Shaikh was detained for several hours, severely beaten, and then released. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

A prominent example of violence directed at homosexuals occurred in Sao Paulo in February 2000, when Edson Neris da Silva was beaten to death by a skinhead gang after having been seen holding hands with another man. (references)

Economic History

Zambia

A young man detained with the group was beaten while in police custody. (references)

Greece

A similar wave of speculation was beaten back in fall 1997, following the Asian financial crisis. (references)

Human Rights

Georgia

The boy reported seeing other children being beaten. (references)

Solomon Islands

Several persons reported seeing him brutally beaten. (references)

Algeria

The group was taken to police headquarters and beaten. (references)

Indigenous People

Gabon

Pygmies who complained about their situations often were beaten. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Several police officers were beaten severely by students. (references)

India

On July 21, a member of the All India Christian Council was attacked and beaten by members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. (references)

Political Economy

Uganda

Police arrested several persons who later claimed to have been tortured or beaten while in custody. (references)

Sudan

Suleiman was detained without charge and reportedly was tortured and beaten in custody; his injuries required extensive medical treatment. (references)

Nigeria

Vigilante violence increased throughout the country, particularly in Lagos and Onitsha, where suspected criminals were apprehended, beaten, and sometimes killed. (references)

Political Rights

Equatorial Guinea

Some opposition politicians who campaigned were beaten and jailed. (references)

Azerbaijan

Individual candidates were harassed, and some were beaten up or detained. (references)

Haiti

In the ensuing melee, a pro-FL demonstrator was killed and several opposition members were beaten severely. (references)

Women

Egypt

Among those who have been beaten, less than half have ever sought help. (references)

Sierra Leone

Frequently women are beaten until they divulge the names of their partners. (references)

Bangladesh

In November a housewife allegedly was beaten to death by her husband in Lakiganjupazila following an argument. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

In some cases, victims were beaten. (references)

Guatemala

Various union leaders and rank and file members were pushed and beaten. (references)

Poland

They are threatened with violence, and those who resist are raped or beaten. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beaten

Beaten

Shaken or beaten by the waves

Expressions using "beaten": a beaten track ♦ acknowledge oneself beaten ♦ battered beaten ♦ be beaten ♦ beaten down ♦ beaten eggs ♦ beaten gold ♦ beaten ground ♦ beaten oil ♦ beaten out ♦ beaten path ♦ beaten track ♦ beaten up ♦ follow a beaten track ♦ go off the beaten track ♦ leave the beaten path ♦ off the beaten track ♦ stick to the beaten track ♦ storm beaten ♦ weather beaten. Additional references.

Beginning with "beaten": beaten-earth, beaten-up.

Ending with "beaten": brow-beaten, weather-beaten, well-beaten.

Containing "beaten": off-the-beaten-track.

Albanian

shumë i lodhur (overwrought), i shkelur (outraged), i rrahur (worldly wise), i këputur (all in, chivied, dead beat, flake out, languid, tired, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked), i grirë (cankered, hackneyed, minced, obsolete, outworn, stale, threadbare, trite). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهزوم (defeated), ‏مطروق, ‏مضروب (struck), ‏مصفح (armored, armoured, coated, ironclad, laminated, plated), ‏مألوف (accustomed, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, regular, usual, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уморен (groggy, tired, washed out, whacked), кован (toreutic, wrought), отъпкан, загубил, бит (manners), победен (defeated, prostrate, triumphant, victorious, victory). (various references)

Chinese 

疲憊 (exhausted), 破敗 (ruined), 摔打 (beaten-up, beat-up). (various references)

Czech

vyšlapaný (well worn), poražený (defeated, felled, knock down). (various references)

Dutch

verslagen worden (be beaten, be defeated, lose), verliezen (be beaten, be defeated, lose). (various references)

Esperanto

venkiĝi (be beaten, be defeated, lose). (various references)

Finnish

vanhaa uraansa (along the beaten track), saada selkäänsä (be beaten), olla laossa (be beaten down, lie flat), joutua tappiolle (be beaten, be conquered, be defeated), jätettiin kolmanneksi (was beaten into third place), heidät lyötiin (they were beaten). (various references)

French

battu. (various references)

German

geschlagen (battered, beated, dashed, knocked), gehämmert (hammered), festgetreten (hard-packed), ausgetreten (resigned from, well worn), ausgeklopft. (various references)

Greek 

συνήθησ (customary, familiar, habitual, ordinary, stock, unexceptional, usual, wonted, workaday), νικώ (beat, beat off, best, conquer, defeat, lick, outplay, overpower, subdue, to whip, vanquish, whip, win), πεπατημένοσ, χτυπώ (beat, beat up, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump), χτυπημένοσ (smitten), ηττημένοσ (loser), δέρνω (beat, beat up, churn, drub, ferule, flog, lambaste, lash, lick, scourge, shellac, spank, trounce, whip, whop). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוכה (flogged, smitten, stricken, struck), מובס (defeated, trampled, trodden), מרוקע (flattened), מנוער (shaken), חבוט (oppressed, pressed down), דפוק (faulty, miserable), נקוף (beating, bruised, bruising). (various references)

Hungarian

kidolgozott (finished, prepared with meticulous care, wrought), kalapált, vert (coinage), megvert (beat), legyőzött (beat, discomfited, loser, subdued, vanquished), kivert, kimerült (all in, beat-up, dead beat, deadbeat, done, drained, effete, exhausted, forworn, impoverished, overwrought, played out, prostrate, spent, tired, to be maxed out, to be zonked out, to feel run down, washed up, weary, worn-out), kikalapált, döngölt (rammed). (various references)

Indonesian

keok (defeated), kalah (defeated, inferior to, lose, lost). (various references)

Italian

picchiato (hewn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

惨敗 (crushing failure, ignominious defeat, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten), 常軌 (beaten track, proper course). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おくれをとる (to be beaten, to be defeated), ざんぱい (crushing failure, ignominious defeat, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten), きんぱく (beaten gold, gold leaf, strain, tension), まいった (I give up, I'm beaten), さんぱい (acidification, crushing failure, ignominious defeat, industrial waste, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten, worship, worshipping three times), うたれる (to be beaten, to be struck), こきりこ (clave-like folk instrument, two bamboo pieces beaten together), じょうき (above mentioned, beaten track, dizziness, information systems, proper course, rush of blood to the head, steam, stipulation, vapour). (various references)

Korean 

치는 (Cuffed, Knocked, stricken, struck). (various references)

Manx

yeelt, fo chosh (overcome, underfoot, vanquished), custhit (disciplined, whipped), bwoalt, bwoallit (sounded). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatenbay.(various references)

Portuguese

vencido (due, loser, mature, overdue, payable, subdued, washed-up), forjado (forged, wrought), espancado (slaphappy), açoitado (whipped). (various references)

Romanian

bãtut (beating, creamed), bãtãtorit (callous, packed, trodden), umblat (frequented), participiu trecut de la beat, frânt (broken, dead beat, jaded, knackered, outworn), amorezat, învins (conquerable, defeated, losing, vanquished). (various references)

Russian 

разбитый (broken, smitten), бить (baste, beat, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop), битый, побежденный (defeated), изъезженный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utrt (paved), utaban. (various references)

Spanish

batido (beat, hit, shake, slap, slat, slug, sock, strike, whipped), vencido (defeated, discomfits, losing), pp de beat, agotado (bleary, bushed, depletive, distressful, distressing, drained, effete, exhausted, gruel, jaded, outsold, overwrought, played out, shot, sold out, spent, tired, tired out, unavailable, warn out, washed out, washed up, whacked, worn out). (various references)

Swedish

besegrad (beat), upptrampad, uppkörd (bloated, fleeced), slagit, slagen (beat, prostrate, smitten, stricken), hamrad (hammered). (various references)

Turkish

dövme (basting, battering, beating, dressing down, forged, hammered, hammering, hiding, pound, pounding, swaging, tanning, tattoo, wrought), dövülmüş (battered), aşınmış (decayed, detrited), çiğnenmiş (broken), çekiçlenmiş (hammered). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaяzykmak (become weather-beaten, chapped). (various references)

Ukrainian

стомлений (all in, all out, aweary, beat, done, irked, run down, spent, tired, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked, worn out), розплющений, обстрілюваний, збитий (nailed), протоптаний (well-trodden), побитий (battered), переможений. (various references)

vapulus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "beaten": browbeaten, overbeaten, unbeaten. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Beaten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baeren, baiten, baten, Bawaeth, beaden, beamen, Beamten, Beaston, Beatae, beatam, beate, Beatons, beaute, beegen, beetwen, befate, begate, beiden, Benteen, Benten, Benteng, beten, Beuren, beute, biate, biatin, bieten, biteen, blaten, bleiben, seaten, weaten, Zeiten. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eaten, enate.

-2 letters: abet, ante, bane, bate, bean, beat, been, beet, bene, bent, beta, etna, nabe, neat, teen.

-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, ban, bat, bee, ben, bet, eat, eta, nab, nae, neb, nee, net, tab, tae, tan, tea, tee, ten.

-4 letters: ab, ae, an, at, ba, be, en, et, na, ne, ta.

+1 letter: beneath, betaine, betaken, tenable.

+2 letters: abetment, abnegate, absented, absentee, absenter, banneret, bantered, banterer, basement, battened, battener, benzoate, betaines, cabernet, entameba, nestable, nettable, rentable, tenebrae, thebaine, tuneable, unbeaten.

+3 letters: abasement, abatement, abetments, abnegated, abnegates, absentees, absenters, bannerets, banqueted, banqueter, banquette, banterers, barrenest, bartended, bartender, basements, battement, batteners, bayoneted, benzoates, bepainted, bethanked, blanketed, butadiene, cabernets, celebrant, debarment, debutante, detonable, embayment, entamebae, entamebas, entamoeba, enterable, exuberant, hibernate, inbreathe, inebriate, snakebite, stablemen, tenurable, thebaines, uneatable, untenable.