Lexic.us

Definition of Beaten

1. Adjective. Formed or made thin by hammering. "Beaten gold"

2. Adjective. Much trodden and worn smooth or bare. "Did not stray from the beaten path"

Definition of Beaten

1. a. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.

Definition of Beaten

1. Adjective. ¹

2. Verb. (past participle of beat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beaten

1. beat [v] - See also: beat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaten

beat to quarters beat up beatable beatbox beatboxed beatboxer beatboxers beatboxes beatboxing beatch

beatches beatdown beatdowns beated beatemest beaten (current term) beaten(a) beaten-up beaten a dead horse beaten around the bush

beaten down beaten off beaten track beaten up beater beater-upper beater-uppers beaters beath beathed

Literary usage of Beaten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... was beaten with the agnus castus (a tree to which magical properties were ascribed),2 why the effigy of Death in some parts of Europe is assailed with ..."

2. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... instead of turning the other way to go to Up Park : I shall take my horse and go to this spot, and, with a resolution not to be beaten, next time, ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"strained to exercise caution, and to repress the desire to make larger ventures from the imperfectly beaten main road. Perhaps, after all, I may have fallen ..."

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