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beatdown
[beet-doun]
noun
a decisive defeat.
The team is on its way to the quarterfinals after delivering last night's 12–3 beatdown.
a severe beating.
If you said that to me, you'd get the beatdown of your life.
verb phrase
to cause to be subdued, discouraged, or hopeless.
Never allow yourself to be beaten down by the hardships you face in life.
Every time someone raises this issue, others beat them down with outraged attacks on their patriotism.
to beat physically.
Protesters had been beaten down by police wielding batons.
to persuade (a seller) to lower the price of something.
His first price was too high, so we tried to beat him down.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of beatdown1
Example Sentences
Jacob Krieg put the finishing touches on the beatdown with a three-run homer in the eighth inning.
The play invigorated the home crowd and set the tone for the beatdown to follow that saw the No. 8 national seed Beavers thoroughly outplay the Trojans despite playing its second game of the day facing elimination.
The odds, however, were against the Clippers winning this deciding game on the road and the Nuggets made sure they kept it in their favor with a 120-101 beatdown.
“We were physical,” said Lakers coach JJ Redick, who pleaded for this type of play after the Game 1 beatdown.
He had only been at Los Padrinos for a few days when the beatdown occurred, according to his attorney, Jamal Tooson, who declined to let The Times speak to his client.
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