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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



... surveyed with pride a slightly battered tin trunk containing her new possessions. It was artistically corded. It was with a slight blush that she rang the bell and ordered it to be placed in a taxi. She drove to Paddington, and left the ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... barrels of gunpowder may be let down tenderly, gently, as well by moonlight and lantern-light as by any other. Therefore, the coming on of night did not interfere with the landing processes. Moreover, any amount of sleep may be performed by a healthy boy in a battered ship lying safely at anchor. So Ned made up, more or less, for the sleep he had lost during the long race of the Goshhawk, and it was not early when he came on deck the next morning. When he did so, he found his duties as nominal supercargo cut out for him, and ...
— Ahead of the Army • W. O. Stoddard
... awfulness of the man's end; but they could not take their fascinated eyes from the scene. They saw Rufe topple over the rail with a choking curse, and saw the rope pull him under the vessel; they saw the rope quiver to the pirates' lusty pull as the victim was battered against the keel. And they saw the terrible figure leap from the sea to leeward and fly to the gaff-end as the men ran away with the rope to a roaring chorus. But they saw no more. Their eyes refused to look at a repetition of that horror. ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle
... was a snug harbor where he could rest when he was too old and battered to front the storms that had for some time been gathering, and sitting by the fire one evening, he speculated about the rocks and shoals ahead. All the same, the time to run for shelter was not yet; he thought he could ride out ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... well-a-day! Battered amid the waves, and torn, On surges hither, thither, borne, Dead bodies, bloodstained and forlorn, In their long cloaks they toss ...
— Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays • AEschylus


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