adj, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   past participle of beat form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Defeated.
2. 2
   Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows.

   "a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack"

3. 3
   Mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement.
4. 4
   Trite; hackneyed. dated

Adjective

1. 1
   much trodden and worn smooth or bare wordnet
2. 2
   formed or made thin by hammering wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

all inall up withautomaticbanalbeatbeat up

Example

More examples

"The gold was beaten into thin plates."

Etymology

From beat + -en.

Related phrases

beaten ricebeaten trackbeaten upoff the beaten pathoff the beaten trackweather-beatenwell-beaten

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