(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.
Eaten
Definition:
(p. p.) of Eat
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
(2) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(3) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
(4) Because the larvae of Anisakis can always be observed by endoscopy and removed with biopsy forceps, early performance of endoscopy is highly recommended for patients in whom acute gastric anisakiasis is suspected and for those who have eaten raw fish within 12 hours before onset of the gastric symptoms.
(5) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
(6) Energy density and unit size influenced the volume eaten and ease of transport, storage and also distribution to recipients.
(7) But identifying why I’m not sleeping well after I’ve eaten too much, drank something or not exercised enough, then it becomes useful to change habits and do something about the poor sleep.” Fitbit has one of the most advanced analysis platforms.
(8) Results showed no significant difference in scores owing to method used, except that 30 subjects above the median age of 76 scored higher on number of items recalled and amounts of food eaten when using the printed questionnaire.
(9) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(10) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
(11) You can’t be preparing 7 million students for the future on one hand, while undermining every chance of a decent future Institutions that keep trying to make these moth-eaten arguments are sounding feebler by the day.
(12) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
(13) We conclude that the observed change in circulating metabolite or hormone concentration is independent of the size of meal eaten, but the duration of the excursion depends on meal size.
(14) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(15) State pathologist Gert Saayman told the court that food found in Steenkamp's stomach suggested she had eaten at about 1am – two hours before she died.
(16) The results suggest that the remobilization of diazepam from its storage site after food intake induces a late impairment of psychomotor skills, especially if the food is eaten within less than 5 h after the injection.
(17) Therefore more is eaten during a meal consisting of a variety of foods than during a meal with just one of the foods, even if that food is the favorite.
(18) We studied nutrient absorption across the brush-border membrane in jejunal tissues from active 13-lined ground squirrels and in hibernating squirrels that had not eaten for at least 6 wk.
(19) Binaural detection thresholds in quiet were measured with and without the protectors worn at the initial insertion and after a period of one to one and one-half hours during which lunch was eaten.
(20) P3 target stimulus amplitude was reduced significantly for the subjects who had not eaten relative to those who had eaten, whereas peak P3 latency was only moderately affected by the recency of food consumption over task conditions.