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- 1. strike repeatedly with hard blows: "a prisoner was battered to death with a table leg" Similar
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BATTER definition: 1. to hit something with force many times: 2. to hit and behave violently towards a person…. Learn more.
BATTER meaning: 1. to hit something with force many times: 2. to hit and behave violently towards a person…. Learn more.
The meaning of BATTER is to beat with successive blows so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish. How to use batter in a sentence.
Batter definition: to beat persistently or hard; pound repeatedly.. See examples of BATTER used in a sentence.
batter to hit somebody/ something hard a lot of times, especially in way that causes serious injury or damage: He had been badly battered around the head and face. Severe winds have been battering the coast.
batter in British English. (ˈbætə ) verb. 1. to hit (someone or something) repeatedly using heavy blows, as with a club or other heavy instrument; beat heavily. 2. (tr; often passive) to damage or injure, as by blows, heavy wear, etc. 3. (transitive) social welfare.
BATTER definition: 1. a mixture of flour, milk, and often eggs used to make cakes and pancakes (= thin fried cakes…. Learn more.
To batter is to beat repeatedly, as if one boxer were clobbering another with blows. Batter is one of those words with many meanings that seem entirely unrelated to each other. You can batter by hitting again and again, but there's also a batter in baseball — the guy who's holding a bat and waiting for the pitcher to throw the ball.
batter. noun. /ˈbætə (r)/ /ˈbætər/ [uncountable, countable] a mixture of eggs, milk and flour used in cooking to cover food such as fish or chicken before you fry it, or to make pancakes. fish in batter. scallops fried in batter. I started mixing the batter for the pancakes. Topics Cooking and eating c1. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
Definitions of 'batter' 1. To batter someone means to hit them many times, using fists or a heavy object. [...] 2. If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner. [...] 3. If a place is battered by wind, rain, or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected by very bad weather. [...]
