The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CANED
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CANED
- Punished, or preserved half-heartedly
- Conservative article by editor given some stick?
- Lively dance, very merry?
- Get beaten in the dance-off
- Thoroughly defeated a northern European, breaking record
- Beaten tin with extended sides
- Beaten by scoundrel without once dropping odds
- Punished for disrupting dance?
- Given birch roughly facing study, bent over
- Punished for being intoxicated!
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What does CANED mean?
CANED verb- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
- To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
- To do something well, in a competent fashion
- To produce extreme pain
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs
- Filled with white flakes; mothery; said of vinegar when containing mother.