batter
/ˈbætɚ/ verb C1- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. · The firemen battered down the door.
- To coat with batter (the food ingredient). · I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- To defeat soundly; to thrash. · Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
He/she/it batters · Past battered · Past participle battered · -ing form battering
Verb forms
- Base form
- batter
- He/she/it
- batters
- Past
- battered
- Past participle
- battered
- -ing form
- battering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that he could neither move nor groan.
They traveled that day and part of the next until they came to the rocky plain where the Tin Woodman lay, all battered and bent.
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.
Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
Other matches
Learn batter in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.