verb
1.
to affect (as by repeated blows) so severely as to disfigure or damage
so battered in the fight he couldn't even crawl away
a boat battered to pieces by stormy seas
Synonyms: ||bung up, mangle, maul
Related Word: disable, disfigure; maim, mutilate; cripple, lame; bruise, contuse, lacerate; baste, clobber, pummel; shatter, wreck
Idioms: beat black and blue, beat to pieces ( or shreds), beat within an inch of one's life
2.
Synonyms: beat 1, baste, belabor, buffet, drub, lambaste, pound, pummel, thrash, wallop