Beaten refers to someone or something that has been hit or attacked and is unable to continue fighting.
When you hear that an athlete was beaten in a competition, it doesn't necessarily mean they were physically hurt. It usually means their opponent won by scoring more points than them, or by doing things better than the other person. This can happen in any sport, like soccer, basketball, or tennis. Imagine a boxer who's been hit too many times and can no longer defend himself - he's beaten. In everyday life, you might also say "beaten" when someone lost a battle of wits with another person, maybe at a game or a puzzle.
How common is "beaten"?
Word beaten is considered rare in modern English. It has a balanced usage among all categories: speech, fiction, newspapers and academic texts.
Definitions
verb
To hit; strike
Example: As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
Example: He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
Example: I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
Example: Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
(In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
Example: He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
To indicate by beating or drumming.
Example: to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
To tread, as a path.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
To be in agitation or doubt.
To make a sound when struck.
Example: The drums beat.
To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
Example: The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
To arrive at a place before someone.
Example: He beat me there.
To have sexual intercourse.
Example: Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
To rob.
Example: He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
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adjective
Defeated
Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows
Example: a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack
(of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement
