Definition of beaten

"beaten" in the verb sense

1. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

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"

2. beat, beat up, work over

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"

3. beat

hit repeatedly

"beat on the door"

"beat the table with his shoe"

4. beat, pound, thump

move rhythmically

"Her heart was beating fast"

5. beat

shape by beating

"beat swords into ploughshares"

6. drum, beat, thrum

make a rhythmic sound

"Rain drummed against the windshield"

"The drums beat all night"

7. beat

glare or strike with great intensity

"The sun was beating down on us"

8. beat, flap

move with a thrashing motion

"The bird flapped its wings"

"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

9. beat

sail with much tacking or with difficulty

"The boat beat in the strong wind"

10. beat, scramble

stir vigorously

"beat the egg whites"

"beat the cream"

11. beat

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"

12. beat

be superior

"Reading beats watching television"

"This sure beats work!"

13. beat, bunk

avoid paying

"beat the subway fare"

14. tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat

make a sound like a clock or a timer

"the clocks were ticking"

"the grandfather clock beat midnight"

15. beat, flap

move with a flapping motion

"The bird's wings were flapping"

16. beat

indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks

"Beat the rhythm"

17. pulsate, beat, quiver

move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

"the city pulsated with music and excitement"

18. beat

make by pounding or trampling

"beat a path through the forest"

19. beat

produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly

"beat the drum"

20. beat

strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

21. outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent

beat through cleverness and wit

"I beat the traffic"

"She outfoxed her competitors"

22. perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

be a mystery or bewildering to

"This beats me!"

"Got me

23. exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out

wear out completely

"This kind of work exhausts me"

"I'm beat"

"He was all washed up after the exam"

"beaten" in the adjective sense

1. beaten

formed or made thin by hammering

"beaten gold"

2. beaten

much trodden and worn smooth or bare

"did not stray from the beaten path"

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Quotations for beaten

The beaten path is the safest. [ Coke ]

A man surprised is half beaten. [ Proverb ]

Here eglantine embalm'd the air,
Hawthorne and hazel mingled there;
The primrose pale, and violet flower.
Found in each cliff a narrow bower;
Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side.
Emblems of punishment and pride,
Group'd their dark hues with every stain
The weather-beaten crags retain. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

They that fear an overthrow are half-beaten. [ Proverb ]

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling,
Rain in the woods, rain on the sea;
Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling
As if to find shelter here with me. [ James Herbert Morse ]

A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut tree,
The more they are beaten, the better they be. [ Proverb ]

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. [ St Ignatius ]

Spaniels that fawn when beaten will never forsake their masters. [ Proverb ]

When the dog is beaten out of the room, where will they lay their stink? [ Proverb ]

The spaniel that fawns when he is beaten, will never forsake his master. [ Proverb ]

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. [ Bunyan ]

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. [ Ouida ]

A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]

On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. [ Carlyle ]

The little mind who loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. [ Goldsmith ]

The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God. [ Bunyan ]

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of popularity is shame: if thou be once up, beware: from fame to infamy is a beaten road. [ Quarles ]

beaten in Scrabble®

The word beaten is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters beaten:

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The word beaten is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Shorter words in beaten

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Longer words containing beaten

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