From the English verb beat:
beaten is:
   Past Participle

1. golpeado, apaleado, aporreado, azotado, mejido, merengado; Synonyms: battered, cudgelled, thrashed, clubbed, drubbed, pommeled, pommelled; Beaten repeatedly with heavy blows.
A battered child.
The battered woman syndrome.


2. vencido, derrotado; Synonyms: conquered, defeated, washed-out, wrecked
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A beaten candidate in politics never knows whether he has a defeat to live down or a moral victory to live up to. Un candidato vencido en la política nunca sabe si tiene una derrota que lograr borrar o una victoria moral que cumplir.




3. batido; Synonyms: scrambled
4. desalentado, apesadumbrado, consternado, decaído, desanimado, descorazonado, postrado; Synonyms: broken-hearted, dejected, despondent, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, weary
5. trillado, asendereado; Synonyms: well-trodden, threshed, footworn; Much trodden and worn smooth or bare.
Did not stray from the beaten path.

Plural: beats

1. ganar a, vencer, arrollar, hacer morder el polvo, acodillar, barrer, sonar; Synonyms: defeat, conquer, bear down, beat up, best, break down, break through, beat out; Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. ; Beat through cleverness and wit.; Be superior.
The enemy beat our soldiers, El enemigo acodilló a nuestros soldados.
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship.
We beat the competition.
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game.
I beat the traffic.
She outfoxed her competitors.
Reading beats watching television.
This sure beats work!


2. batir, mezclar rápidamente; Synonyms: churn, scramble, shake, stir, beat up, mix rapidly, whip, whisk; Stir vigorously.
Beat the egg whites.
Beat the cream.


3. apalear, dar de golpes a, dar golpes a, garrotear, golpear, agarrar a coscorrones, agarrar a golpes, aporrear, batir, bejuquear, caer a golpes, caer a golpes a, caer a golpes sobre, cuerear, dar de palos, dar una buena paliza, dar una paliza, entrar a golpes a, pegar a, pegar una paliza, sopapear, abarrar, brear, macanear, mecatear, sentar la mano, solfear; Synonyms: beat up, whip, administer a thrashing, batter, bludgeon, maul, thrash, beat someone's brains out, bash up; Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.
The bully beat the boy, El matón aporreó al chico.
Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night.
The teacher used to beat the students.


4. palpitar, latir, pulsar; Synonyms: throb, pulsate, palpitate, pound, pulse, tick; Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion. ; Move rhythmically.
My heart beats, Me late el corazón.
The city pulsated with music and excitement.
Her heart was beating fast.


5. abatir; Synonyms: eradicate, stamp out; Kill in large numbers. ; Destroy completely, as if down to the roots.
6. batir; Synonyms: flap, wave; Move with a thrashing motion.
The bird beats its wings in the wind, El ave bate las alas en el viento.
The bird flapped its wings.
The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky.


7. ojear, espantar; Synonyms: chase away; Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.
John beat the deer, Juan ojeó los venados.

1. pulsación, toque, pulsada, batido; Synonyms: pulse, palpitation, pulsation, stroke, throb, throbbing; The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. ; A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations.
He could feel the beat of her heart.


2. ritmo, tiempo, compás; Synonyms: time, rhythm, cadence, pace, tempo, measure; A regular rate of repetition. ; The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music. ; The accent in a metrical foot of verse.
The cox raised the beat.
The piece has a fast rhythm.
The conductor set the beat.


3. latido; Synonyms: heart-throb, heartbeat, heartthrob, palpitation, pit-a-pat, pitapat, throb; The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.
He could feel the beat of her heart.

1. agotado, muy cansado, extenuado; Synonyms: exhausted, tired, washed-out, worn-out, all tuckered out, burned-out, jaded, played-out; Very tired.
Was all in at the end of the day.
So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere.
Bushed after all that exercise.
I'm dead after that long trip.

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