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BEATEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Much trodden and worn smooth or bare
Example:
did not stray from the beaten path
Classified under:
Similar:
familiar (well known or easily recognized)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Formed or made thin by hammering
Example:
beaten gold
Classified under:
Participle:
beat (shape by beating)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb beat
Context examples:
So that, thinking I had seen enough, full of contempt and aversion, I got up, and pursued the beaten road, hoping it might direct me to the cabin of some Indian.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I thought I had beaten the Wicked Witch then, and I worked harder than ever; but I little knew how cruel my enemy could be.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The boy had become afraid; he called and cried after him: “Oh, wild man, do not go away, or I shall be beaten!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was not beaten, or starved; but the wrong that was done to me had no intervals of relenting, and was done in a systematic, passionless manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He had seen dogs change owners in the past, and he had seen the runaways beaten as he was being beaten.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
With a blissful sense of burdens lifted off, Meg and Jo closed their weary eyes, and lay at rest, like storm-beaten boats safe at anchor in a quiet harbor.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I could not move swiftly over the rough, broken ground, but as I looked round me in despair I saw a well-marked, hard-beaten path which ran across in front of me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"And you're just as badly licked now. You're beaten to a pulp. You're down and out."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
