How do you spell Beaten
Available Definitions:
1) a. - Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
2) a. - Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
3) a. - Exhausted; tired out.
4) a. - Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
5) a. - Tried; practiced.
6) v. t. - To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
7) v. t. - To tread, as a path.
8) v. t. - To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
9) v. t. - To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
10) v. t. - To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
11) v. t. - 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.
12) v. i. - To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
13) v. i. - To move with pulsation or throbbing.
14) v. i. - To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
15) v. i. - To be in agitation or doubt.
16) v. i. - To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
17) v. i. - To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
18) v. i. - To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
19) v. i. - 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.
20) n. - A stroke; a blow.
21) n. - A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
22) n. - The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
23) n. - A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
24) n. - A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat , v. i., 8.
25) v. i. - A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
26) v. i. - A place of habitual or frequent resort.
27) v. i. - A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
28) a. - Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
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