[
US
/ˈbætɝd/
]
[ UK /bˈætəd/ ]
[ UK /bˈætəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
damaged especially by hard usage
his battered old hat -
damaged by blows or hard usage
a battered old car
the beaten-up old Ford -
exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
the battered woman syndrome
a battered child
How To Use battered In A Sentence
- Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
- Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
- There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
- The herstory of the battered women's movement in Florida is a cautionary tale.
- Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
- That history was one of poverty and violence, of battered women and abandoned children.
- Some escaped after a bouncer battered down a partition wall. Times, Sunday Times
- Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible.
- I am hunched against the biting wind, and all my possessions are next to me in a battered suitcase.
- The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
