n. Function: verb
1 to affect (as by repeated blows) so severely as to disfigure or damage FF1C; so battered in the fight he couldn't even crawl away FF1E; FF1C; a boat battered to pieces by stormy seas FF1E;
Synonyms: ||bung up, mangle, maul
Related Words: 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
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Synonyms: BEAT 1, baste, belabor, buffet, drub, lambaste, pound, pummel, thrash, wallop