beaten

/ˈbiːt(ə)n/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈbiːt(ə)n/

beaten

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

bea - ten -> beaten

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ခြေကုန်လက်ပန်းကျသော။ရှုံးနိမ့်သွားသော။ကောင်းစွာမွှေထားသော။ (v[pp]) ရိုက်ခဲ့ပြီး

Full entry

beat /bi:t/ v (pt beat; pp beaten /'bi:tn/)

၁။ ထပ်တလဲလဲထုသည်၊ ရိုက်သည်။ Somebody was beating at the door. ❍ Who's beating the drum? ❍ She was beating the dust out of the carpet (ie removing dust from the carpet by beating it). ❍ They beat the prisoner unconscious (ie hit him until he became unconscious). ❍ HIT
၂။ ~ against/on sth/sb ရိုက်ခတ်သည်။ Hailstones beat against the window. ❍ The waves were beating on the shore.
၃။ ~ sth (up) မွှေသည်။ ခေါက်သည်။ ခလောက်သည်။ beat the eggs (up) (to a frothy consistency) ❍ beat the flour and milk together.
၄။ (က) (နှလုံး) ခုန်သည်။ She's alive — her heart is still beating.
(ခ) စည်းချက်မှန်မှန်တီးသည်။ We heard the drums beating. (ဂ) (တောင်ပံ) ခတ်သည်။ The bird's wings were beating frantically. ❍ It was beating its wings.
၅။ (က) ~ sb (at sth) နိုင်သည်။ Our team was easily beaten. ❍ He beats me at chess.
(ခ) သာသည်။ ကျော်သည်။ နိုင်အောင်လုပ်သည်။ Nothing beats home cooking. ❍ You can't beat Italian clothes. ❍ The government's main aim is to beat inflation. ❍ beat the speed record (ie go faster than anyone before) ❍ If we leave early we should beat (ie avoid) the rush hour traffic.
(ဂ) (infml ) အခက်ကြုံသည်။ စဉ်းစား၍မရ။ a problem that beats even the experts ❍ It beats me/What beats me is (ie I don't know) how/why he did it.
၆။ (သတ္တုကို) ခတ် သည်။ beaten silver ❍ The gold is beaten (out) into thin strips. ❍ to beat metal flat.
၇။ (သားကောင်ထွက်လာရန်) တောခြောက်သည်။
၈။ လမ်းထွင်သည်။ a well-beaten track (ie one worn hard by much use) ❍ The hunters beat a path through the undergrowth.
adj ခြေကုန်လက်ပန်းကျသော။ I'm (dead) beat.
n
၁။ (က) [C] (စည်၊ ဗုံ စသည်) တီးချက်။ ယင်းတီးသံ။ a single beat on the drum.
(ခ) [sing] စည်စသည် စည်းချက် မှန်မှန်တီးချက်။ ယင်းအသံ။ the steady beat of the drums.
၂။ [C] ဂီတ၊ ကဗျာ့နရီ။ The song has a good beat.
၃။ [C] တာဝန်ကျလမ်းကြောင်း။ ပုံမှန် လှည့်လည်သွားရာနယ်မြေ။ a policewoman out on the/her beat.
❏ beat about the bush [IDM ] ဝေ့လည်ကြောင်ပတ် ပြောသည်။ Stop beating about the bush and tell us who won.
❏ beat sb at their own game [IDM ] တစ်ဖက်က နိုင်မည် ဟုတွက်ထားသောပွဲကို အနိုင်ရလိုက်သည်။
❏ beat the clock [IDM ] (သတ်မှတ်ချိန်ထက်) စောပြီးသည်။
❏ beat sth down [PHRV ]
၁။ ရိုက်ဖွင့်သည်။ ရိုက်ချိုးသည်။ The thieves had beaten the door down.
၂။ မြေ၌ ပြားပြားဝပ်စေသည်။ The wheat had been beaten down by the rain.
❏ beat down (on sb/sth) [PHRV ] (နေ) ချစ်ချစ်တောက် ပူသည်။ The sun beat down (on the desert sand).
❏ beat sb/sth down (to sth) [PHRV ] အတင်း ဈေးဆစ် သည်။ He wanted $8000 for the car but I beat him down (to $6000). ❍ I beat down the price (to $6000).
❏ beat the drum (for sb/sth) [IDM ] အားတက်သရော ထောက်ခံပြောပေးသည်။
❏ beat sb hollow [IDM ] (Brit ) အပြတ်အသတ်နိုင်သည်။ Our team was beaten hollow.
❏ beating n
၁။ ရိုက်ခြင်း။ give sb/get a good (ie severe) beating.
၂။ (infml ) မရှုမလှရှုံးခြင်း။ Our team got a sound beating.
❏ beat sb into/to sth [PHRV ] (ဖွတ်ဖွတ်ကြေအောင်၊ သေ အောင်) ရိုက်သည်။ The prisoners were beaten into submission. ❍ The dog was beaten to death.
❏ beat it [IDM ] (sl ) (esp imperative) ခုထွက်သွား။ This is private land, so beat it!
❏ beat sb/sth off [PHRV ] တိုက်ခိုက်မောင်းထုတ်သည်။ The attacker/attack was beaten off. ❍ She beat off a challenge to her leadership of the party.
❏ beat sth out [PHRV ]
၁။ စည်းလိုက်သည်။ She beat out the rhythm on a tin can.
၂။ ငြှိမ်းသတ်သည်။ We beat the flames out.
၃။ ပိမ့်ရာချိုင့်ရာ ပျောက်အောင်ထုသည်။ They can beat out the dent in the car's wing.
❏ beat sb out of sth [PHRV ] (US sl ) ညာယူသည်။ Her brother beat her out of $200.
❏ beat the rap [IDM ] (US sl ) အပြစ်ဒဏ်မခံရဘဲ လွတ်သွား သည်။
❏ beat a (hasty) retreat [IDM ] ထွက်ပြေးသည်။ ဆုတ်ပြေး သည်။ The poacher beat a hasty retreat when he saw the farmer coming.
❏ beat time (to sth) [IDM ] စည်းလိုက်သည်။ She beat time (to the music) with her fingers.
❏ beat sb to… [PHRV ] စောရောက်သည်။ ဦးသည်။ I'll beat you to the top of the hill (ie I'll race you and get there first).
❏ beat sb to it [PHRV ] ဦးသွားသည်။ လက်ဦးသည်။ Scott wanted to reach the South Pole first, but Amundsen beat him to it. ❍ I was about to take the last cake, but he beat me to it.
❏ beat - up adj (infml esp US ) ချုံးချုံးကျနေသော။ ရွဲနေသော။ a beat- up old car.
❏ beat sb up [PHRV ] မညှာမတာရိုက်သည်၊ ကန်သည်။ He was badly beaten up by a gang of thugs.
❏ can you beat that/it! [IDM ] (တအံ့တဩဖြစ်ရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)။ ကြုံဖူးရဲ့လား အရပ်ကတို့။
❏ if you can't beat them, join them [IDM ] (catchphrase ) သူ့မနိုင်ရင် သူ့ဘက်ဝင်။
❏ off the beaten track [IDM ] လူသူအရောက်အပေါက် နည်းသည့်နေရာ။ They live miles off the beaten track.
❏ a rod/stick to beat sb with [IDM ] ဆော်စရာ နှံစရာ အချက်။ နိုင်ကွက်။
❏ take a lot of/some beating [IDM ] လွယ်လွယ်ကလေးနှင့် မသာနိုင်၊ မကျောနိုင်။ She will take some beating (ie It will be difficult to do better than her). ❍ His record will take a lot of beating.

More examples

England needed to beat Germany to get to the final.
In 2000, George W Bush narrowly beat Al Gore in the election.
She beat the world record by 0.3 of a second.
I’ll be happy if I beat my previous score.
It is one of the few businesses that has beaten the recession.
Women who have beaten breast cancer
[beat someone to/back/up etc] : See if you can beat me back to the house!
[beat the deadline/clock] : He was always trying to beat the clock and finish early.
They were arrested for beating their children.
Someone was beating a drum in the distance.
I beat my hands on the wall with rage.
He suddenly beat the table with his fist.
[beat against/on/at] : The rain was beating against the windows with renewed force.
Waves beating on the shore
The shock had made my heart beat faster.
For me, surfing the Net beats watching TV any time.
You can’t beat a good book.
Obviously, Apple would be upset by any announcement that some company was going to beat them to market.

Synonyms

hit, strike, bang, hammer, thump, thrash, pound, punch, agitate, alternate, bash, bat, batter, be victorious, belt, best, better, blend, blow, bob, bounce, box, break, bruise, buffet, cadence, cadency, cane, castigate, circuit, clonk, clout, club, collide, combine, conquer, course, cream, crush, cudgel, defeat, do better than, dog tired, dog-tired, drub, drum, drumming, exceed, excel, exhausted, fashion, fatigued, flagellate, flail, flap, flicker, flog, flow, fluctuate, flutter, forge, form, get the better of, go one better than, had it, heave, jerk, jounce, kaput, knock, lambaste, lash, lick, malleate, maltreat, march, mash, maul, measure, meter, mix, model, oscillate, oscillation, outclass, outdistance, outdo, outperform, outplay, outrival, outrun, outshine, outstrip, overcome, overtake, overwhelm, palpitate, palpitation, path, patrol, pelt, pitch, precinct, pressure, pulsate, pulsation, pulse, pummel, punish, purée, quake, quaver, quiver, ram, rap, ready to drop, rhyme, rhythm, ripple, rounds, route, shake, shape, shiver, shoot ahead of, slap, slaughter, slug, smack, smash, spank, stir, stress, stroke, subdue, surge, surpass, swat, swell, swing, tap, thresh, thrill, throb, throbbing, thud, thunk, thwack, tick, tired, tired out, top, transcend, tremble, triumph, trounce, twitch, undulate, undulation, vanquish

Antonyms

aid, assist, be inferior, be still, calm, cede, compliment, destroy, energetic, fail, fall behind, fresh, give up, guard, help, lively, lose, neglect, praise, protect, refreshed, relinquish, remain, rested, retreat, soothe, stay, steady, stillness, surrender, tap

Cross references

hit strike bang hammer thump thrash pound punch agitate alternate bash bat batter be victorious belt best better blend blow bob bounce box break bruise buffet cadence cadency cane