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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BE'ATEN, pp. Struck; dashed against; pressed or laid down; hammered; pounded; vanquished; make smooth by treading; worn by use; tracked.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
2: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 13th century 1. hammered into a desired shape <beaten gold> 2. much trodden and worn smooth; also familiar <a beaten path> 3. being in a state of exhaustion ; exhausted

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 outwitted; defeated. 2 exhausted; dejected. 3 (of gold or any other metal) shaped by a hammer. 4 (of a path etc.) well-trodden, much-used. Phrases and idioms: off the beaten track 1 in or into an isolated place. 2 unusual. Etymology: past part. of BEAT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Beaten earth has been pressed down, often by people's feet, until it is hard. Before you is a well-worn path of beaten earth. = trampled ADJ: ADJ n 2. A place that is off the beaten track is in an area where not many people live or go. Tiny secluded beaches can be found off the beaten track. PHRASE

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Worn by use, much travelled. 2. Hackneyed, trite, threadbare, common, common-place. 3. Defeated, baffled dispirited.

Moby Thesaurus

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