Having Failed To Win Is Punished Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "BEATEN" which means:

adjective
• • Formed or made thin by hammering
adjective satellite
• • Much trodden and worn smooth or bare
verb
• • To hit; strike
• • To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• • To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• • To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• • To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
• • To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• • To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
• • To mix food in a rapid fashion. compare whip.
• • (in haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
• • To indicate by beating or drumming.
• • To tread, as a path.
• • To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• • To be in agitation or doubt.
• • To make a sound when struck.
• • To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• • To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
• • To arrive at a place before someone.
• • To have sexual intercourse.
• • To rob.

An example sentence would be:

• • "The beaten path led us to the old cabin."
• • "Her beaten face showed signs of a struggle."

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