battered

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UK/ˈbætəd/US/ˈbætəɹd/

adjective

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

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of batter
adjectivebattered (comparative more battered, superlative most battered)

comparative more battered · superlative most battered

  1. Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.

    The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

    1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick
  2. Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.

    There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather!

    2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28
    1 more example

    While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.

    1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2014
  3. informalDrunk; inebriated.
  4. cookingCoated with batter (noun).

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivedamaged by blows or hard usage

Similar

adjectivedamaged especially by hard usage

Similar

adjectiveexhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-der.?
  2. Old Englishbatt
  3. Old Frenchbatteinflu.
  4. Middle Englishbat
  5. Englishbat
  6. Englishbatter
  7. Englishbattered

From batter + -ed.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Czech opotřebovaný, bitý
  • opotřebovanýbeaten up through a lot of use
  • bitýbeaten repeatedly or consistently
  • zbitýbeaten repeatedly or consistently
French usé
  • usébeaten up through a lot of use
German abgewetzt, abgenutzt
  • abgewetztbeaten up through a lot of use
  • abgenutztbeaten up through a lot of use
  • zerschlissenbeaten up through a lot of use
  • zerbeultbeaten up through a lot of use
  • ramponiertbeaten up through a lot of use
  • ramponiertbeaten repeatedly or consistently
  • zusammengehauenbeaten repeatedly or consistently
  • zusammengeschlagenbeaten repeatedly or consistently
  • übel zugerichtetbeaten repeatedly or consistently
  • angeschlagenbeaten repeatedly or consistently
  • zerbeultbeaten repeatedly or consistently
Hungarian bundás
  • bundás(cooking) coated with batter
Portuguese surrado, empanado
  • surradobeaten up through a lot of use
  • empanado(cooking) coated with batter
Russian поби́тый, вида́вший ви́ды
  • поби́тый (pobítyj)beaten up through a lot of use
  • вида́вший ви́ды (vidávšij vídy)beaten up through a lot of use
  • помя́тый (pomjátyj)beaten up through a lot of use
  • потрёпанный (potrjópannyj)beaten up through a lot of use
Spanish maltrecho
  • maltrechobeaten up through a lot of use
Swedish skamfilad, sliten
  • skamfiladbeaten up through a lot of use
  • slitenbeaten up through a lot of use
  • misshandladbeaten repeatedly or consistently
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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