Meaning

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly..

Definitions by Sense

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
3. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
4. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
7. (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
8. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.

Example Sentences

The firemen battered down the door.

The golden ſtature of their feathered bird That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals, Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.

The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.

I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.

Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.

That cocktail will batter you!

I was battered last night on our pub crawl.

Word Forms

• batters
• battering
• battered

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Use batter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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