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verb

Batter v. t. (past & past part. battered; pres. part. battering)

1.

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

2.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade."

3.

(Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Batter v. i. (Arch.) To slope gently backward.

adjective

battered adj.

1.

In deplorable condition; as, the battered old Ford station wagon.

Synonyms: beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound.

2.

Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows; as, a battered old car; antonym of unbattered. (Narrower terms: buffeted; storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept)

3.

Damaged especially by hard usage. "His battered old hat"

4.

Beaten repeatedly; of people; as, a battered child; the battered woman syndrome; a battered wife.

Synonyms: beaten.

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Etymology of 'Battered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Battered" Quotes from Famous Books

... morning Fabrice, after surveying the work that was going on in the trenches, strolled away with a gun, intent upon lark-shooting. A wounded bird dropped on the road; and as Fabrice followed it he encountered a battered old carriage driving towards the frontier. In it were Giletti, Marietta and an old woman who ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... that she saw the full cruelty of the predicament. What happiness remained to her now of a battered life stood squarely in the way of her son's happiness. That was the issue, and no advice or aid of mine could change it. There was another silence that seemed to me an eternity as I watched, a helpless witness, the struggle going on within her. At last she got to her feet, ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... why the overmatched, battered, and all but demoralized cruisers received no more attention from the enemy; it were wiser to deal with the Argyll. The Saratov, blazing fiercely from the effects of a well-planted shell, had drawn out of line, the better to deal with her trouble. Her place in the line and ...

— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson

... and a man emerged through a gap in ancient masonry less than six feet away carrying a battered, cheap "hurricane" lantern whose cracked glass had been reenforced with patches of brown paper. He was armed to the teeth—literally. He had a long knife in his mouth, a pistol in his left hand, and a rifle slung behind him, but after one long look at us, holding the ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... where Mr Waller lived was one of a row of semi-detached villas on the north side of the Common. The door was opened to them by their host himself. So far from looking battered and emitting last breaths, he appeared particularly spruce. He had just returned from Church, and was still wearing his gloves and tall hat. He squeaked with surprise when he saw who ...

— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse

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