Battered

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Beaten down or bruised; worn or impaired, as by beating or long service: as, a battered pavement; battered type; a battered jade.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. In deplorable condition.
  • adjective. Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows; ; antomyn of unbattered.
  • adjective. Damaged especially by hard usage.
  • adjective. beaten repeatedly; -- of people.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of batter.
  • adjective. Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
  • adjective. Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
  • adjective. Coated with batter.
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  • adjective. damaged especially by hard usage
  • adjective. exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
  • adjective. damaged by blows or hard usage
  • Word Usage
    "Most often they do not leave, and the violence continues; psychologists call it battered women's syndrome."
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    batter