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Example sentences from the Web for batteringOne could picture catapults and trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers. Team USA Goes Down Swinging in 2-1 World Cup Loss to Belgium|Tunku Varadarajan|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST The police certainly need no more scandal—their chief was forced to resign this week after being convicted of battering his wife. How Local Police Missed a Chance to Stop Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011|Michael Daly|July 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST Maybe it will require the U.S. military having enough time to restore itself after the battering of the last decade. Peter Beinart: Romney Follows Obama’s Foreign Policy Script|Peter Beinart|October 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST One with a pistol strapped to his hip swings a battering ram into a door. Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons|Andrew Becker, G. W. Schulz|December 21, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Tonight, he was a battering ram whenever anyone tried to interrupt him. Mitt Romney Stands His Ground|Mark McKinnon|October 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST The Romans, when investing towns, always accepted offers of capitulation, if made before the battering ram had touched the walls. The Rights of War and Peace|Hugo Grotius They carried a huge beam, which they used as a battering ram. Stepsons of Light|Eugene Manlove Rhodes Up came the firemen, climbing, clinging, battering down the obstructions before them. Aunt Jimmy's Will|Mabel Osgood Wright His great, hairy face was darker than usual, what with the battering it had received, and the blood which was drying upon it. The Rich Little Poor Boy|Eleanor Gates Her sides are some eighteen inches thick, and sheathed and resheathed with "greenheart" to help her in battering the ice. A Labrador Doctor|Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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noun- the act or practice of battering someone
- (in combination)baby-battering; granny-battering
Words nearby batteringbattered woman syndrome, batterer, batter-fry, batterie, batterie de cuisine, battering, battering ram, batter pile, batter's box, Battersea, battery Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to batteringclobber, mar, demolish, pummel, wreck, beat, shatter, ruin, injure, bruise, cripple, hurt, crush, wallop, buffet, smash, pelt, lash, destroy, punish |