beaten
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 →
2) Beaten means hit many times: "The traveller was beaten by robbers." tree →
3) Beaten (cooking) means mixed hard with a fork or whisk: "beaten eggs". tree →
4) Beaten (adjective) can mean tired and defeated, or flattened by walking, as in "a beaten path". tree →
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 →
- Robbers left the man beaten by the side of the road. tree →
- Add two beaten eggs to the flour. tree →
- We walked along a beaten path through the woods. tree →
- Our cottage was off the beaten track. tree →
- This pizza can't be beaten! tree →
- Hitting people is never right; nobody should be beaten. tree →
- ‘Who has beaten you like this?’ asked the King. tree →
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!
- They were beaten with sticks and pushed out into the cold and the rain.
- And Ruby, beaten by a gloating boy, simply said «good game».
- Kai's mate swore he'd beaten the final boss «in like ten minutes, bro».
- Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is how many friendships start.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beaten» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.