| 单词 | batter |
| 释义 | batter (once / 417 pages) 1v 2n 3n 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. Yet another meaning is the batter you mix up when you're making muffins, using eggs, flour, milk, and sugar. They all come from the same Latin root word, battuere, "to beat or strike." WORD FAMILYbatter: battered, battering, batters+/bat: bats, batted, batter, batting/battered: batteredest/battering: batterings USAGE EXAMPLESMany who left Mosul hope that their city, battered by years of war and brutalized by IS, will retain its immoveable feast. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) These days, portraits of Saleh remain visible across a capital battered by war, and he’s referred to as the “Godfather” in some circles. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Storms battered the town of Boma, which is nearly 300 miles southwest of the capital, Kinshasa. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v strike violently and repeatedly Syn|Hyper baste, clobber beat, beat up, work over give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression 2v strike against forcefully Syn|Hyper buffet, knock about strike deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 3v make a dent or impression in 2Syn|Hyper dinge change form, change shape, deform assume a different shape or form n (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper batsman, hitter, slugger bunter a batter who bunts designated hittera ballplayer who is designated to bat in place of the pitcher pinch hitter(baseball) a substitute for the regular batter switch-hittera baseball player who can bat either right or left handed whiffera batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike ballplayer, baseball player an athlete who plays baseball n a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking Hypo|Hyper pate a choux, pouf paste, puff batter batter for making light hollow cases to hold various fillings pancake batterbatter for making pancakes fritter batterbatter for making fritters concoction, intermixture, mixture any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients |
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