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Large move outside done badly, getting beaten (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bludgeoned

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'beaten' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'large move outside done badly' is the wordplay.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'move' becomes 'budge' (to budge is to move slightly).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go outside others).
'badly' indicates an anagram (letters in the wrong order).
'l' put into 'budge' is 'bludge'.
'done' is an anagram of 'oned'.
'bludge'+'oned'='BLUDGEONED'

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for bludgeoned that I've seen before include "Hit by stick" , "knocked out" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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