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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

... and battered about on the current, they passed within near sight of the lighthouse, and they might have thanked God that they passed no nearer, for to have passed nearer would have been certain death. The white waves dashed over it, enveloped its tall strong pillar that buffeted them back, like a noble will ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... room stood a battered easel, while against the wall near it, and upon the floor, were a number of canvases of different sizes. A cot bed, unmade, its covers dirty and in disorder, occupied the wall space opposite the door. In the centre of the mean and uninviting ...

— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... than well," he said. "You have performed magnificent deeds. It is a beautiful land for which we fight, and, although our enemies are many and terrible and we suffer much, we shall surely triumph in the end. Bird with his cannon was compelled to go back. He could have battered down the palisade walls of any of the stations, but he feared the gathering of the white hunters and fighters. Above all he feared the coming of George Rogers Clark, the shield of ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler

... caravan had been painted 'Thtre de la Gat,' which threw light upon the object of the intruders. The donkey drew up in front of the inn, and the excited crowd waited with ill-contained impatience to see the company of players descend from the battered travelling trunk on wheels. At length a pretty little girl of about twelve, with large and lustrous brown eyes, came out of the box. She was the company. She was in the charge of her mother, who superintended the artistic ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... the pioneer colonies along this Turkestan highway. The peculiarity of these villages is their extreme length, all the houses facing on the one wide street. Most of them are merely mud huts, others make pretensions to doors and windows, and a coat of whitewash. Near-by usually stands the old battered telega which served as a home during many months of travel over the Orenburg highway. It speaks well for the colonizing capacity of the Russians that they can be induced to come so many hundreds of miles ...

— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

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