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beaten
(a.)被打敗了的,筋疲力竭的,敲平的,踏平的
Beat v. t. [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat, Beaten p. pr. & vb. n. Beating.]
1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36.
They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3.
2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior.
4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton.
5. To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore.
6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold.
7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke.
9. Mil. To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.
To beat down, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition.
To beat off, to repel or drive back.
To beat out, to extend by hammering.
To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. “Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.” --South.
To beat the dust. Man. (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot.
To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
Syn: -- To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome.
Beat·en a.
1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. “A broad and beaten way.” --Milton. “Beaten gold.” --Shak. “off the beaten track.”
2. Vanquished; defeated; conquered; baffled.
3. Exhausted; tired out.
4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. [Obs.]
5. Tried; practiced. [Obs.]
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beat
adj : very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed
after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long
trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days
a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by
name" [syn: round]
2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with
each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her
heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat]
3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has
a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: rhythm,
musical rhythm]
4: a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two
waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to
the difference between the two oscillations
5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress
and behavior [syn: beatnik]
6: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum"
7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter,
metre, measure, cadence]
8: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"
9: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam
pipe"
10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible
to the direction from which the wind is blowing
v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi
beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the
competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last
football game" [syn: beat out, crush, shell, trounce,
vanquish]
2: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a
punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up
when he walked down the street late at night"; "The
teacher used to beat the students" [syn: beat up, work
over]
3: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his
shoe"
4: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: pound,
thump]
5: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares"
6: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, thrum]
7: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating
down on us"
8: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings";
"The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
[syn: flap]
9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in
the strong wind"
10: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
[syn: scramble]
11: strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great
emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's
breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically"
12: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure
beats work!"
13: avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: bunk]
14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were
ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: tick,
ticktock, ticktack]
15: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were
flapping" [syn: flap]
16: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
"Beat the rhythm"
17: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the
city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate,
quiver]
18: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the
forest"
19: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum"
20: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for
hunting
21: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She
outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart,
outfox, circumvent]
22: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick,
get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder,
flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
23: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm
beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: exhaust,
wash up, tucker, tucker out]
[also: beaten]
beaten
adj 1: beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the
battered woman syndrome" [syn: battered]
2: formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
3: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from
the beaten path" [syn: beaten(a)]