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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat,
Beaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS.
be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st
Butt, Button.]
1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to
beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat
grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and
sugar; to beat a drum.
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Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
--Ex. xxx. 36.
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They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.
xxxix. 3.
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2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
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3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the
noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of
rousing game.
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To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.
--Prior.
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4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
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A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.
--Milton.
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5. To tread, as a path.
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Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.
--Blackmore.
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6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,
etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be
superior to.
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He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
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For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.
Arnold.
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7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with
out. [Colloq.]
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8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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Why should any one . . . beat his head about the
Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
--Locke.
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9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound
by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,
a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.
See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
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10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a
person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
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11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment);
as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax
by buying out of state.
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To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower
price; to force down. [Colloq.]
To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition.
To beat off, to repel or drive back.
To beat out, to extend by hammering.
To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give
it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it
to this day.'' --South.
To beat the dust. (Man.)
(a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a
horse.
(b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.
To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering
agitation.
To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the
motion of the hand or foot.
To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to
beat up an enemy's quarters.
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Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;
baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;
defeat; vanquish; overcome.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Beaten \Beat"en\ (b[=e]t"'n; 95), a.
1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. ``A broad
and beaten way.'' --Milton. ``Beaten gold.'' --Shak. ``off
the beaten track.''
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2. Vanquished; defeated; conquered; baffled.
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3. Exhausted; tired out.
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4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
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5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten; p. pr.
& vb. n. Beating.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin
to Icel. bauta, OHG. b?zan. Cf. 1st Butt, Button.]
1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to
beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat
grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and
sugar; to beat a drum.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small.
--Ex. xxx. 36.
They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex.
xxxix. 3.
2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the
noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of
rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey.
--Prior.
4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.
--Milton.
5. To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way.
--Blackmore.
6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game,
etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M.
Arnold.
7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with
out. [Colloq.]
8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the
Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
--Locke.
9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound
by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley,
a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.
See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower
price; to force down. [Colloq.]
To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition.
To beat off, to repel or drive back.
To beat out, to extend by hammering.
To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give
it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it
to this day.'' --South.
To beat the dust. (Man.)
(a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a
horse.
(b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.
To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering
agitation.
To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the
motion of the hand or foot.
To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to
beat up an enemy's quarters.
Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump;
baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer;
defeat; vanquish; overcome.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Beaten \Beat"en\, a.
1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. ``A broad
and beaten way.'' --Milton. ``Beaten gold.'' --Shak.
2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
3. Exhausted; tired out.
4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
beat
adj : very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed
after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long
trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days
a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by
name" [syn: round]
2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with
each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her
heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat]
3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has
a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: rhythm,
musical rhythm]
4: a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two
waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to
the difference between the two oscillations
5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress
and behavior [syn: beatnik]
6: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter,
metre, measure, cadence]
8: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
9: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam
pipe"
10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible
to the direction from which the wind is blowing
v 1: 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" [syn: beat out, crush, shell, trounce,
vanquish]
2: 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" [syn: beat up, work
over]
3: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his
shoe"
4: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: pound,
thump]
5: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
6: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, thrum]
7: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating
down on us"
8: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings";
"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
[syn: flap]
9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in
the strong wind"
10: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
[syn: scramble]
11: 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: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure
beats work!"
13: avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: bunk]
14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were
ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: tick,
ticktock, ticktack]
15: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were
flapping" [syn: flap]
16: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
"Beat the rhythm"
17: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the
city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate,
quiver]
18: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the
forest"
19: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
20: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for
hunting
21: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She
outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart,
outfox, circumvent]
22: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick,
get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder,
flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
23: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm
beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: exhaust,
wash up, tucker, tucker out]
[also: beaten]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
beaten
adj 1: beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the
battered woman syndrome" [syn: battered]
2: formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
3: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from
the beaten path" [syn: beaten(a)]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
beaten
See beat
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
beaten
Middle English vb.
(tlb enm Early ME) (alt form enm beten id=to beat t=to beat)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
beaten
a.
1 defeated.
2 repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows.
3 (senseid en cookery) (lb en cooking of a liquid) mixed by paddle
with a wooden spoon or other implement.
4 (lb en dated) trite; hackneyed.
vb.
(inflection of en beat past part)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
beaten
Middle English vb.
(tlb enm Early ME) (alt form enm beten id=to beat t=to beat)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
beaten
Middle English vb.
(tlb enm Early ME) (alt form enm beten id=to beat t=to beat)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
beaten
Englanti vb.
(en-v-taivm b eaten pperf=beat)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
beaten
Engelska a.
(avledning en beat ordform=perfpart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb beat)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Beaten /bˈiːtən/
ضرب
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
ztlučený
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
zbitý
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beat sth. /bˈiːt ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/ (beat /bˈiːt/ <>, beaten /bˈiːtən/ <>)
etw. ausklopfen
Note: Staub; Teppich
see: beating, beaten, beat the dust out of sth.
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
ausgeklopft
see: beat sth., beating, beat the dust out of sth.
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beat /bˈiːt/ (beat /bˈiːt/ <>, beaten /bˈiːtən/ <>)
durchhauen [ugs.]
see: beating, beaten
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
durchgehauen
see: beat, beating
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
heftig geklopft, gehämmert
Synonyms: pounded, thumped
see: beat at sth., pound against sth., thump sth., beating, pounding, thumping
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
an die Türe geklopft, gehämmert, gepocht, gepumpert
Synonyms: pounded, thumped on the door
see: beat, pound, thump on the door, beating, pounding, thumping on the door
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
gequirlt, geschlagen
Synonym: whisked
see: whisk, beat sth., whisking, beating, beat the cream to a froth/until frothy, Whisk the eggs with the cream until the mixture thickens.
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beat sb./sth. /bˈiːt ˌɛsbˈiː ˌɛstˌiːˈeɪtʃ/ (beat /bˈiːt/ <>, beaten /bˈiːtən/ <>)
jdn./etw. schlagen, jdn. prügeln, jdn. dögeln/tögeln [Ös.] [ugs.]
Synonym: drub sb.
see: beating, drubbing, beaten, drubbed, he/she beats, I/he/she beat, I/he/she would beat, beat sb. black and blue, beat/knock/punch the living daylights out of sb., beat the bejesus out of sb., beat sb. into/to hospitalization, beat sb. until he requires hospitalization, almost beat sb. to death
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
geschlagen, geprügelt
"he/she has/had beaten" - er/sie hat/hatte geschlagen
Synonym: drubbed
see: beat sb./sth., drub sb., beating, drubbing, he/she beats, I/he/she beat, I/he/she would beat, beat sb. black and blue, beat/knock/punch the living daylights out of sb., beat the bejesus out of sb., beat sb. into/to hospitalization, beat sb. until he requires hospitalization, almost beat sb. to death
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beat /bˈiːt/ (beat /bˈiːt/ <>, beaten /bˈiːtən/ <>)
schlagen
"My heart beats fast." - Mein Herz schlägt schnell.
see: His pulse is very irregular/weak.
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beat sb. /bˈiːt ˌɛsbˈiː/ (beat /bˈiːt/ <>, beaten /bˈiːtən/ <>)
jdn. schlagen, bezwingen [sport]
Note: bei einem Wettkampf besiegen
see: beating, beaten, Juventus Turin beats Arsenal 2-0., He beat the goalkeeper with a powerful shot.
Note: defeat in a competition
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
geschlagen, bezwungen
"be badly beaten" - vernichtend geschlagen werden
see: beat sb., beating, Juventus Turin beats Arsenal 2-0., He beat the goalkeeper with a powerful shot.
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
treibt
see: beat, beating
From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
νικώ, χτυπώ, δέρνω
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
lupati, poražen, poraženi, pretučen, pretučena, tući, tučen, uglačan, utrt
From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
beaten /bˈiːtən/
1. megvert
2. legyôzött
3. kalapált
4. döngölt
5. kivert
6. kikalapált
7. kimerült
8. kidolgozott
9. vert
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈbitən/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "beaten":
all in, all up with, automatic, beat, beat up, bested, blebby,
blistered, blistering, blistery, bone-weary, bubbling, bubbly,
burbling, burbly, bushed, carbonated, chiffon, confounded,
constant, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, defeated,
discomfited, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done for, done in,
done up, down, drained, ebullient, effervescent, exhausted,
fagged out, fallen, fixed, fizzy, floored, frequent, gone,
habitual, hackneyed, hors de combat, knocked out, lambasted,
lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome,
overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown,
overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, persistent, played out, pooped,
pooped out, prostrate, puffed, put to rout, ready to drop,
recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routed, routine, ruined,
scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, souffle,
souffleed, sparkling, spent, spumescent, stampeded, stereotyped,
tired out, tired to death, trimmed, trite, trounced, tuckered out,
undone, upset, used up, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular,
washed-up, weary unto death, well-trodden, well-worn, whacked,
whelmed, whipped, wiped out, worn-out, worsted
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 被打败了的,筋疲力竭的;
vbl. 打,击;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 被打败了的,筋疲力竭的,敲平的,踏平的
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