Definitions
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.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of batter.
- adj. Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
- adj. Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
- adj. cooking Coated with batter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. In deplorable condition.
- adj. Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows; ; antomyn of
unbattered . - adj. Damaged especially by hard usage.
- adj. beaten repeatedly; -- of people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. damaged especially by hard usage
- adj. exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
- adj. damaged by blows or hard usage
Examples
“Most often they do not leave, and the violence continues; psychologists call it battered women's syndrome.”
The Huffington Post: Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser
“Famed contrarian value investor David Dreman declared in July that investors were missing out on some terrific stock market bargains because they were suffering from a bad case of what he called battered investor syndrome.”
“Personally I think Rihanna is suffering from what I call battered woman's syndrome, which is a nice way of saying that a woman who has gotten her 'A' double 'S' kicked in will support her man.”
“Both may seem a bit stressed and battered from the outside but the inside was stronger and more beautiful than ever.”
“For someone who has been battered from the Repubs to the "Tea Partiers" plus the public, this man has been able to get things moving despite the destructive attitudes of just about everyone.”
“Where surfers used to live in battered vans and old motor homes, the town has cleared the prickly beach weeds and constructed a promenade of paving stones, beautifully landscaped with flowers and shrubs.”
“Dying, being battered is NOT enjoying the debate, that is the most removed, out of touch, pathological thing one can say!”
The Early Word: Faith on the Trail - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Quadriplegic rugby players armor themselves in battered aluminum wheelchairs that look like something straight out of Mad Max, and they hurtle around the court at astonishing speeds, smashing into the opposing team so hard that sometimes people fly right out of their chair.”
“We're both battered from the work: Emily fell off a kitchen stool this morning while washing the upstairs windows, and I banged my head against a drainpipe when I was cleaning under the bathroom sink.”
“Parkway Billiards is an old pool hall decked out in battered hardwoods, giant crystal chandeliers, nappy green carpet, and brass fixtures.”
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gcastro heard it on tv when a doctor said that the corpse was battered. Oct 31, 2010