Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not battered; not bruised or injured by blows.

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  • adjective Not battered or beaten.
  • adjective Not cooked in batter.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ battered

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Examples

  • As they heat up, the worms' bodies will expand, causing the unbattered portions to elongate.

    Recipe: Superworm Tempura 2011

  • Because there is great benefit in seeming to be a big strong nation that is unroiled, unruffled and unbattered by the constant high seas of the world.

    From Disraeli to 'the Bang-Bang' Peggy Noonan 2011

  • The market is sending a clear signal that the beneficiaries of the shakeout will be boutique investment banks focusing on high-margin merger advice and independent money managers relatively unbattered by the credit crisis.

    Boutique Investment Banks May Benefit 2008

  • Robin really liked them as she prefers her wings unbattered.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Randi 2007

  • Robin really liked them as she prefers her wings unbattered.

    We're back...... Randi 2007

  • Until his parents returned: unbattered, unbloody, perfectly calm.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Until his parents returned: unbattered, unbloody, perfectly calm.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • And then John Thorwald, the Prodigious Prodigy, whose gigantic frame seemed unbattered by the terrific daily scrimmage, whom it was impossible to hurt on the gridiron, the day before, going downstairs in Creighton Hall, hurrying to a class, had caught his heel on the top step, and crashed to the bottom!

    T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

  • Gliding slowly across the mass came an electric tram, an entirely unbattered tram with even its glass undamaged, and then another and another.

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • Past a famous mining village which for two years has been swept by shell fire, now British, now German, until nothing save the village Crucifix remains unbattered; iron, brick, and concrete, twisted by the awful destructive power of high explosives.

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

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