(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.
Unbeatable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We went through a run of results where we were almost unbeatable but since then we have tailed off a bit.
(2) More important than that in a short series they had an almost unbeatable trio in probable Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, a quality starter having his best season in Anibal Sanchez and Justin Verlander-In-A-Down-Year (which is still pretty good).
(3) Tancock is all but unbeatable over a single length, but has never been as strong over double the distance.
(4) Miami fans were exiting American Airlines Arena, the yellow rope was already up , and b'ball fans thought they were about to witness the San Antonio Spurs win their fifth NBA Championship by knocking out a Miami Heat team that was almost unbeatable during the regular season .
(5) Given the fallout from the Brexit vote, this was a competitive category this year, but Perloff’s rant about business rates is unbeatable.
(6) Dave Forsey, chief executive, said: "Despite tougher comparisons during the period, Sports Retail continues to perform well driven by our on-going focus on exceptional quality, unbeatable value and availability.
(7) I tried not to think the Kenyans were unbeatable, just gave it my all and as I hit the bell, [I thought], ‘Don’t regret this last lap.’” The field events were delayed by 20 minutes because of the heavy rain that flooded the runways and the women’s pole vault in particular veered dangerously close to farce.
(8) The Conservative party is neither strong nor unbeatable.
(9) These prices would be good value for a pretty ordinary B&B in a regional town – for chic digs in London, where you can easily pay £100 for access to a small dingy moth sanctuary, they’re basically unbeatable.
(10) Social atomisation may be the best sales strategy ever devised, and continuous marketing looks like an unbeatable programme for atomisation.
(11) As a Scot, maybe I've a bias towards the wildness and the colours of this landscape, but the beauty of the timeless West Highland coast on such a sun-drenched day is unbeatable.
(12) but became nearly unbeatable when he made his way back into the lineup.
(13) N’Golo Kanté is simply unbeatable in midfield and captain Wes Morgan has come on leaps and bounds too.
(14) One patient had unbeating nystagmus that diminished with upgaze, downgaze, or convergence.
(15) Caballero could not keep out Emre Can’s impudent little pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva, a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save.
(16) The BBC boys are full of praise for Walker, with Terry Venables describing him as ‘unbeatable’.
(17) But cutting the price further this week, Tony Baines, managing director for corporate buying at Aldi, said: “In order to deliver outstanding quality at unbeatable prices, we have reduced the retail price of our Back to School uniform package from £4 to £3.69.” Lidl said its collection – comprising 41 separate items and including 100% cotton fabrics and leather shoes – could save British families with two children up to £2,854 over their entire primary school education.
(18) What a terrible indictment of a golfer who was once judged unbeatable on a Sunday afternoon.
(19) No matter who we’re playing, we play three in midfield – Drinkwater in the middle and Kanté either side,” explained the club’s chief scout, Steve Walsh, in a fairly unbeatable description that tells us all we need to know.
(20) If the lack of a hate figure was the gaping hole for the yes side, Nick Clegg provided an unbeatable one for the noes.