(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(2) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(3) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(4) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(5) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
(6) The home team's defence had been undermined by naivety and it was in evidence when Stepanov, already on a yellow card for a foul on McGeady and having been played into trouble, lunged for the ball only to be beaten to it by Keane.
(7) Saturday's programme was beaten in the ratings – at least while the two were head-to-head – by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing.
(8) She writes that she has not so far been subjected to physical violence, possibly because the prison authorities are aware of her international fame, but that other women are regularly beaten on the face or kidneys.
(9) Nemanja Matic, more normally such a man-mountain of a midfield shield, is diminished and was beaten too easily in the air by James Morrison for the home side’s second.
(10) She has beaten Jeremy Hunt in the courts but Dr Louise Irvine is now determined to unseat the health secretary at the ballot box.
(11) Danger of US being involved: The US is only likely to be invaded when we have been beaten.
(12) Garcia is a good champion but Khan should have beaten him.
(13) Several of the candidates who ran against Lukashenko were arrested and the top opposition leader, Vladimir Neklyaev, was forcibly taken from the hospital where he was being treated after he and two other candidates were beaten during clashes with government forces.
(14) The last big one was only in August this year, when seven young people were beaten up by a gang of 40 Nazis."
(15) Collecting the fallout from a corner, Max Gradel unleashed a shot which might well have beaten Rob Elliot had it not deflected wide off Andrew Surman.
(16) Labour was further troubled by local splits, including a row over a planned academy school in Preston, which saw the council education chair deposed and then fought and beaten in the poll by the local party's constituency chair.
(17) Beaten by Sánchez, he refused to give up, recovering brilliantly to catch the Chilean international in time to block his attempt to beat an unprotected Abbiati.
(18) Ken Livingstone has beaten Oona King to the Labour nomination for London mayor, setting him up for a political rematch in the capital with his old rival Boris Johnson in 2012.
(19) She was repeatedly raped, beaten and “treated like a slave” throughout her teenage years.
(20) Mexico rocketed up 14 places in the rankings to 26th after they lifted their seventh Gold Cup last mont h, while beaten finalists Jamaica moved up 21 places to 55th after their surprise run.
Beater
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, beats.
(n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(2) Van Gaal has yet to win away from home – for the first time in 18 years United have gone six Premier League games without a victory on their travels – and with all due respect to their opponents on the road so far, MK Dons, Burnley, Sunderland, Leicester and West Bromwich Albion , they are not exactly world-beaters.
(3) While everyone waits for Salazar to hit back at the Panorama claims – a fierce and comprehensive response is expected in the next couple of days – there is at least one thing that all sides can agree on: what Black calls “genius” of the coach has turned Farah into a world beater.
(4) The unspun version Asked by Harper's Bazaar magazine to pick her 21st-century heroine, she chose serial servant-beater Naomi Campbell.
(5) Peter Crouch, who has been signed three times and sold twice by Redknapp, said: "He builds up players' confidence, telling you every day you can be a world-beater.
(6) And Leroy, a former panel beater, whose concern for 14-year-old Nadia's mental and physical decline is touching, yet who appears powerless to prevent her deterioration in front of our eyes.
(7) If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.
(8) Instead we had the first buzzer beater of this year's tournament as Texas’s Cameron Ridley made an improbable game-winning layup with time expiring.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With 2.3 seconds left, Russell Westbrook made a three-pointer to give the Thunder a one point lead that looked like it was going to seal the game, but before anyone could put his clutch three into any perspective, offseason acquisition Andre Iguodala coldly hit a buzzer-beater to shock a Thunder team that shocked the Warriors mere moments before.
(10) To check that the mixture is at the right stage, lift the beaters from the bowl – the mixture that falls off should leave a distinct ribbon-like trail on the surface.
(11) It was those investors who brought in a savvy team of directors, engineers, business managers and PR professionals who have been working to turn Summly into a potential world-beater, including older staff such as the chief technology officer, Eugene Ciurana, who boasts 20 years' experience in the technology business, and the head of R&D, Inderjeet Mani.
(12) Osborne says: We are seeing some sectors that are going to be world-beaters.
(13) After all, the first day of the Round of 64 featured four overtime games, three upsets and one dramatic buzzer beater .
(14) Most mornings, 15-year-old Iqbal arrives for his job at a Dhaka panel beaters at about 10am, working on cars for up to 13 hours before he can go home.
(15) The 23-year-old unemployed panel-beater from Toulouse had been holed up in his flat, surrounded by police, since 3:30am on Wednesday.
(16) Loyal gamekeepers and hired-in beaters were packed off ahead of the shooting party in open-top tractors with a cauldron of vegetable soup and cracked mugs.
(17) Tissue was extracted in 80% methanol, 20 mM 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol, pH 9.5 at 25 degrees C and homogenized in a 1.5-ml Sardstat screw-top test tube containing 0.5-mm glass beads and a minibead beater.
(18) For four months after the “glorious twelfth” of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters’ sights.
(19) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
(20) 2.08am BST Aside from Jeff Carter's buzzer-beater, the teams are more or less level statistically - shots, hits, giveaways, takeaways are all pretty close to even steven.