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Battered   /bˈætərd/   Listen
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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"Battered" Quotes from Famous Books



... land's not important, But seven good peasants Once met on a high-road. From Province "Hard-Battered," From District "Most Wretched," From "Destitute" Parish, From neighbouring hamlets— "Patched," "Barefoot," and "Shabby," "Bleak," "Burnt-Out," and "Hungry," From "Harvestless" also, 11 They met and disputed Of who can, in Russia, Be ...
— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov
... my view, the educated brute and the despairing, battered, faithful drudge of a woman, to migrate from lodging-house to lodging-house, to suffer ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
... nations there are times and tides. Against the tide-wall of history, beaten by many a storm, and battered by many a thundering wave, there is about to sweep the incoming wave of a new life for the race: there is about to pass a greater than the spirit of Tsze-sue,—even the ...
— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
... the foot of Greenland, and must have landed somewhere in what is now Labrador. It would be inconceivable that in four centuries of voyages this never happened. In most cases, no doubt, the storm-tossed and battered ships, like the fourteen vessels that Eric lost, were never heard of again. But in other cases survivors must have returned to Greenland or Iceland to tell of what ...
— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock
... Big Creek stream a long double boom cradled the large "R & P" drive. The last log had shot safely down the crooked brook and rested calmly by the side of its companions. There were thousands of them there, scarred and battered by rock and flood; worthy veterans were they, this hardy army of the forest, reposing now ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody


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