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verb
- 1. strike repeatedly with hard blows: "a prisoner was battered to death with a table leg" Similar
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BATTER definition: 1. to hit something with force many times: 2. to hit and behave violently towards a person…. Learn more.
1. a. : to beat with successive blows so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish. battered down the door. women who have been battered by their husbands. b. : bombard. battering targets with artillery fire. battering the lawyer with questions. c.
to hit and behave violently toward a person repeatedly over a long period of time: Campaigners are concerned that the new laws on domestic violence do not show enough understanding of the lives of people who are battered. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hitting and beating. at-risk. bang away. bang someone up. basher. bashing. bunch.
Batter definition: to beat persistently or hard; pound repeatedly.. See examples of BATTER used in a sentence.
1. a. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. See Synonyms at beat. b. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 2. To damage, as by heavy wear: a shed battered by high winds. 3. a. To attack verbally, as with criticism. b. To harass or distress, as with repeated questions. See Synonyms at assault. v.intr.
To batter is to beat repeatedly, as if one boxer were clobbering another with blows. Batter is one of those words with many meanings that seem entirely unrelated to each other. You can batter by hitting again and again, but there's also a batter in baseball — the guy who's holding a bat and waiting for the pitcher to throw the ball.
batter in British English. (ˈbætə ) verb. 1. to hit (someone or something) repeatedly using heavy blows, as with a club or other heavy instrument; beat heavily. 2. (tr; often passive) to damage or injure, as by blows, heavy wear, etc. 3. (transitive) social welfare.
BATTER definition: 1. a mixture of flour, milk, and often eggs used to make cakes and pancakes (= thin fried cakes…. Learn more.
Definitions of 'batter' 1. If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner. [...] 2. To batter someone means to hit them many times, using fists or a heavy object. [...] 3. If a place is battered by wind, rain, or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected by very bad weather. [...]
batter to hit somebody/ something hard a lot of times, especially in way that causes serious injury or damage: He had been badly battered around the head and face. Severe winds have been battering the coast.
