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# beaten

«beaten» in Mova's school dictionary: **the form of "beat" after have or be: lost to someone in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past participle of beat: beaten); adjective (beaten)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Beaten is the form of "beat" after have or be: lost to someone in a game ("We were beaten 3–0"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m1)

2) Beaten means hit many times: "The traveller was beaten by robbers." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m2)

3) Beaten (cooking) means mixed hard with a fork or whisk: "beaten eggs". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m3)

4) Beaten (adjective) can mean tired and defeated, or flattened by walking, as in "a beaten path". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and stories, being beaten is losing; good players learn from it. In the parable of the Good Samaritan the traveller is "beaten and left half dead". In cooking lessons, recipes ask for beaten eggs. Phrases: be beaten, beaten up (rude violence), off the beaten track (in a quiet, faraway place), can't be beaten (the best).

### examples

- We were beaten by the other school, but we played well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x1)
- Robbers left the man beaten by the side of the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x2)
- Add two beaten eggs to the flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x3)
- We walked along a beaten path through the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x4)
- Our cottage was off the beaten track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x5)
- This pizza can't be beaten! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x6)
- Hitting people is never right; nobody should be beaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x7)
- ‘Who has beaten you like this?’ asked the King. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/#x8)

### note

Verb forms: beat, beats, beat (past), beaten (past participle), beating. Trap: "We beat them" (past) vs "We were beaten" (passive). In sports scores, the first number is usually the winner's.

### In the corpora

- [Toad struts along the high road, miles from home, singing his own praises: brain has beaten brute force!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/0/)
- [They were beaten with sticks and pushed out into the cold and the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/5/)
- [And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/21/)
- [Kai's mate swore he'd beaten the final boss «in like ten minutes, bro».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/6/)
- [Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is how many friendships start.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/42/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beaten» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beaten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.