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beaten to

beaten to is the past participle of beat to.

Meaning of beat to

Verb

beat to (third-person singular simple present beats to, present participle beating to, simple past beat to, past participle beaten to)

  1. (transitive) To arrive (somewhere) more quickly (than someone else); to succeed (at something) more quickly (than someone else).
    • Zumbetel wanted to beat Yalpatel to launching the planet's first pocket-sized satellite phone.

Questions about beaten to

What is beaten to the past participle of?
Beaten to is the past participle of beat to.

Words near beaten to in the dictionary

  1. beaten the stuffing out of
  2. beaten the system
  3. beaten the tar out of
  4. beaten the wing
  5. beaten time
  6. beaten to
  7. beaten to a pulp
  8. beaten track
  9. beaten up
  10. beaten up on
  11. beaten with the ugly stick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beaten to (page history and authors); beat to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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