battered

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Cohen's fedora was well-battered, as if it had been handed down from Fred Astaire via Rocky Marciano.

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  1. Beaten down or bruised; worn or impaired, as by beating or long service: as, a battered pavement; battered type; a battered jade. The Tory party, according to those perverted views of Toryism unhappily too long prevalent in this country, was held to be literally defunct, except by a few old battered crones of office. Disraeli.

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  • But while fierce winds tore apart property, they bonded residents of this community, who worked together to clean up the storm-battered area. —  Fremont Tribune News Articles
  • The low end of the LA / OC housing market continues to get battered, according to new data from S&P / Case-Shiller. —  The Orange County Register - Homepage
  • We will become the brutalized, battered, and beaten Babylon of the following texts. —  The Voice
  • Will be pointing the roo-battered, car-park-dinged, electronically-challenged VX in that direction in mid to late April. —  The RiotACT
  • "Egg as Person" bill was brutally battered, asskicked and chain-whipped by the State Senate yesterday: —  Blogging Change
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