BEATEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beaten mean? 

• BEATEN (adjective)
  The adjective BEATEN has 2 senses:

1. formed or made thin by hammering

2. much trodden and worn smooth or bare

  Familiarity information: BEATEN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEATEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formed or made thin by hammering

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

beaten gold

Participle:

beat (shape by beating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Much trodden and worn smooth or bare

Context example:

did not stray from the beaten path

Similar:

familiar (well known or easily recognized)

 Context examples 

So it was, Oona, that thou sawest me beaten like a dog.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Both men had lost hope—Johnson, because of temperamental despondency; Leach, because he had beaten himself out in the vain struggle and was exhausted.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The matter can be easily remedied,” said the brow-beaten doctor; “Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return to London by the morning train.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He shook it and grinned sheepishly at the courier, who shrugged his shoulders in sign that they were beaten.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground; he be beaten back, but did he stay?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In person he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The few who threw themselves in their way were overpowered or brushed aside, while the pursuers were beaten back by the ready weapons of the three cavaliers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again I had to confess that he had beaten me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)