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单词 battered
释义

battered

adjective

bat·​tered ˈba-tərd How to pronounce battered (audio)
1
: damaged or worn down by hard use
a battered old hat
a battered truck
2
: injured by repeated blows
the victim's battered body
a boxer's battered face
3
: subjected to repeated physical abuse
providing help for battered wives/children
… the store turned into an impromptu women's crisis center, where battered women and mothers trying to rescue their daughters from abusive dads gravitated. Donna Minkowitz

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web At the old Terminal B at LaGuardia, in March 2016, crowds waited, water stained the ceiling, and a battered ground transportation sign greeted arriving passengers. Ben Cohen, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 In one corner, with a battered hip, sat the most accomplished quarterback in Ravens history — a former Super Bowl Most Valuable Player and one-time owner of the richest contract in NFL history. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2022 There is an absolutely priceless moment when Julie and Rosalind have dinner together and Rosalind, always so proper in sturdy skirts and helmet of set hair, frets nervously that there’s no fish knife on the table to use on her dish of battered cod. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022 China announced $44 billion more in stimulus last week, but experts do not believe the measures will be enough to revive China’s economy or its battered property market. Grady Mcgregor, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022 Reaching the plant, about 30 miles to the southwest, will entail crossing a buffer zone between the two armies of battered villages and fields cratered by artillery shells. Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022 The husband of a U.K. diplomat who was accused of beating his wife in December 2018 was not initially arrested because he was protected by the battered woman’s own diplomatic status, according to a different report from the New York Post. Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022 In recent weeks, fighting along the battered front line in southern Ukraine has been brutal. CBS News, 11 Aug. 2022 Christian is the kind of guy whose wife ends up in a battered woman’s center. Washington Post, 29 June 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

battered

adjective

bat·​tered
ˈba-tərd
: worn down or injured by hard use
She wore a battered old hat.

battered

verb

past tense of batter
1
as in pounded
to strike repeatedly children battered the piñata until it broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • pounded
  • lashed
  • licked
  • whipped
  • pelted
  • attacked
  • smashed
  • knocked
  • beat
  • assaulted
  • slapped
  • thumped
  • mauled
  • pummeled
  • punched
  • spanked
  • buffeted
  • hit
  • bashed
  • slammed
  • thrashed
  • chopped
  • hammered
  • bludgeoned
  • batted
  • hided
  • walloped
  • did
  • tanned
  • wounded
  • pummelled
  • smacked
  • clubbed
  • whacked
  • paddled
  • curried
  • boxed
  • flogged
  • raided
  • lathered
  • laced
  • belted
  • whupped
  • punched out
  • drubbed
  • cracked
  • worked over
  • swiped
  • slogged
  • belabored
  • whaled
  • lambasted
  • birched
  • switched
  • stormed
  • tromped
  • slated
  • basted
  • threshed
  • whapped
  • clobbered
  • whopped
  • pommeled
  • socked
  • strapped
  • pommelled
  • fibbed
  • assailed
  • beat up on
  • lacerated
  • pasted
  • leathered
  • swatted
  • clouted
  • rushed
  • bunged up
  • cuffed
  • mangled
  • busted
  • thwacked
  • beset
  • mutilated
  • cudgelled
  • laid on
  • flagellated
  • caned
  • scourged
  • maimed
  • horsewhipped
  • roughed (up)
  • gored
  • whomped
  • lammed
  • pistol-whipped
  • cudgeled
  • messed (up)
  • whammed
  • bust
  • blackjacked
  • cowhided
  • rawhided
  • descended (on or upon)
  • fustigated
  • jumped (on)
  • pounced (on or upon)
2
as in bombed
to use bombs or artillery against planes battered the city for weeks

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • bombed
  • attacked
  • ravaged
  • bombarded
  • shelled
  • blitzed
  • pounded
  • cannonaded
  • assaulted
  • blitzkrieged
  • strafed
  • raked
  • assailed
  • hit
  • devastated
  • enfiladed
  • struck
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