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batter

/ˈbætɚ/ verbe C1
  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. · The firemen battered down the door.
  2. To coat with batter (the food ingredient). · I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  3. To defeat soundly; to thrash. (figuratively) · Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
  4. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

He/she/it batters · Prétérit battered · Participe passé battered · Forme en -ing battering

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
batter
He/she/it
batters
Prétérit
battered
Participe passé
battered
Forme en -ing
battering

Dans la bibliothèque

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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 83 · B2
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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 91 · B2
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.
The Jungle Book, p. 56 · B2
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.
The Jungle Book, p. 76 · B2

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