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beaten

adjective

1 the beaten team:

defeated, losing, unsuccessful, conquered, bettered, vanquished, trounced, routed, overcome, overwhelmed, overpowered, overthrown, bested, subdued, quashed, crushed, broken, foiled, hapless, luckless;

informal licked, thrashed, clobbered.

▷antonyms victorious, winning.

2 a beaten dog:

abused, battered, maltreated, ill-treated, mistreated, misused, downtrodden;

assaulted, thumped, hit, thrashed, pummelled, smacked, drubbed;

informal walloped, belted, bashed, whacked, clobbered, knocked about, knocked around, roughed up.

3 gradually stir in the beaten eggs:

whisked, whipped, stirred, mixed, blended;

frothy, foamy.

4 a beaten copper coffee table:

hammered, forged, formed, shaped, moulded, worked, stamped, fashioned, modelled, fabricated, cast, sculpted;

dimpled, pockmarked, spotted.

5 a beaten path:

trodden, trampled;

well trodden, much trodden, well used, much travelled, worn, well worn.

□ off the beaten track

we tried to find locations off the beaten track:

unfrequented, isolated, quiet, private, remote, out of the way, outlying, secluded, hidden, backwoods, in the back of beyond, in the middle of nowhere, in the hinterlands;

informal in the sticks.

▷antonyms busy, popular.

beaten Oxford Dictionary of English