battered

[ US /ˈbætɝd/ ]
[ UK /bˈætəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. damaged especially by hard usage
    his battered old hat
  2. damaged by blows or hard usage
    a battered old car
    the beaten-up old Ford
  3. exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
    the battered woman syndrome
    a battered child
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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.
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