battering
/ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/ noun C2- A heavy beating.
- A large defeat.
- Domestic violence
Plural batterings
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If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
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