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Definition of Beaten-up
1. Adjective. Damaged by blows or hard usage. "The beaten-up old Ford"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaten-up
Literary usage of Beaten-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1874)
"highly peppered and well salted, or the oil may be beaten up with an equal quantity
of the froth of porter, and tossed ofl before the constituents have ..."
2. The Dinner Year-book by Marion Harland (1878)
"... the whites, beaten up with a little sugar. The citron spikes should be just
visible through the snowy blanket. ..."
3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1848)
"When gathered they are well beaten with sticks to develope the colour, and made
up and kept in shops in this state. • No. CVII. The same, beaten up as done ..."
4. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"depend upon the internal administration alone, but habitually use them in enema,
throwing up half a drachm or a drachm, beaten up with yolk of egg, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The elementary principle of the method, after the due preparation and annealing
of the plate, was to trace on the back of it the design to be beaten up, ..."
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