Formed or made thin by hammering
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
Adjective S.
beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome"
Adjective
formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
of Beat
a.
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
a.
Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
a.
Exhausted; tired out.
a.
Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
a.
Tried; practiced.
Beaten
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
Usage Examples
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.
Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
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