BATTER


Meaning of BATTER in English

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

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