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Princeton's WordNet

  1. battered, beat-up, beaten-upadjective

    damaged by blows or hard usage

    "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford"

  2. batteredadjective

    damaged especially by hard usage

    "his battered old hat"

  3. batteredadjective

    exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury

    "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome"

Wiktionary

  1. batteredadjective

    Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.

  2. batteredadjective

    Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.

  3. batteredadjective

    Coated with batter.

ChatGPT

  1. battered

    Battered generally refers to either a person or object that has undergone severe physical abuse or damage, appearing worn out, damaged or suffering the effects of rough treatment. It's also used in culinary context to describe a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk or water, used for coating and deep frying food.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Battered

    of Batter

Wikidata

  1. Battered

    Battered is a Norwegian thrash metal band fronted by then-former Einherjer members Frode Glesnes, Gerhard Storesund and Aksel Herløe in 2004. Since then they have only released one demo: ...Beyond Recognition and one album Battered. A new vocalist joined their band in 2005, Siggy Olaisen, and they recorded their self-titled debut album which was released February 27, 2006 in Norway and March 13 in the rest of Europe. The American date for the album Battered was April 4, 2006. Since the emergence of Battered into Thrash Metal, the term "Batter" has become a colloquialism for the use of recreational drugs, e.g. "Getting battered" and is commonly used with the term Burke, a reference to a lower subculture of burkies, who are known to get battered.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of battered in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of battered in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of battered in a Sentence

  1. George Gascón:

    The fact that a sheriff's deputy allegedly battered a patient at San Francisco General Hospital is unnerving, what's worse is that he's also alleged to have perjured himself on a police report, unforgivable conduct that led to the arrest of the innocent victim.

  2. Hassan Umar:

    It was an eyesore looking at the scene which is littered with chopped flesh and battered bodies of victims, about 16 bodies were evacuated from the scene while over 30 persons were injured. Most casualties were children hawking sachets of water and peanuts. Some were begging for alms.

  3. Jose Baez:

    While it is clear from the video that De'Andre Johnson was not the initial aggressor, his family wants to take the lead in helping him learn and grow from this experience. He is currently participating in community service, and faith-based programs focused on battered women, substance abuse, and the empowerment of children, de'Andre is extremely embarrassed by this situation and would like to express his heartfelt apologies to everyone, including those who were directly affected, coach Fisher and his teammates, the entire Florida State University community, as well as his family and friends.

  4. Pen Farthing:

    He was just war-torn and battered, just like the town we were actually fighting over.

  5. Mark Priest:

    There's a sense of relief. There's so much nervousness in the market at the moment that even slightly good news out of a bank like Commerzbank is taken very well, the German banking sector has been pretty battered, and The German banking sector's got to a point where there may be value there, so long as global economic factors start to calm down. Germany's DAX was up 1.4 percent. Traders said that growth data from Germany, which showed growth was steady and in line with expectations, provided reassurance after economic fears had pegged back markets this week. The FTSEurofirst 300 nonetheless remains down 5 percent this week, with banks still down around 7.5 percent on the week, hit by concerns over profitability in a low growth, low interest rate environment. Caution over exposure to default from the energy sector has also hindered bank stocks. On Friday, the oil and gas sector rose 3.1 percent after a rally in oil which left crude prices up over 3 percent. Growth sensitive mining stocks also rallied, up over 3 percent. In other corporate news, Rolls Royce rallied 11.9 percent after Rolls Royce results, Rolls Royce biggest one-day rise since November 2008. It stuck to its 2016 guidance, despite being forced to cut its dividend following three profit warnings last year. It said there would be no need for a rights issue.

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  • zbitý, bitý, skloněnýCzech
  • voldsramteDanish
  • zerschlissen, zusammengehauen, zusammengeschlagen, abgewetzt, abgenutzt, ramponiert, übel zugerichtet, angeschlagen, zerbeultGerman
  • battuFrench
  • 오래 써서 낡은Korean
  • MaltratadoPortuguese
  • zlostavljan, izdrndanSerbo-Croatian

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