battered

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbætəd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbætəɹd/

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Verb

battered

1. simple past and past participle of batter

Adjective

battered (comparative more battered, superlative most battered)

1. Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

2. Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:

     There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather!

3. (informal) Drunk; inebriated.
4. (cooking) Coated with batter (noun).

Derived terms

• nonbattered
• overbattered
• unbattered

Translations

beaten up through a lot of use

Czech: opotřebovaný French: usé (fr) German: abgewetzt (de), abgenutzt (de), zerschlissen (de), zerbeult (de), ramponiert (de) Portuguese: surrado (pt) Russian: поби́тый (ru) m (pobítyj), вида́вший ви́ды (ru) m (vidávšij vídy), помя́тый (ru) m (pomjátyj), потрёпанный (ru) m (potrjópannyj) Serbo-Croatian: izdrndan Spanish: maltrecho (es) Swedish: skamfilad (sv), sliten (sv)

beaten repeatedly or consistently

Czech: bitý, zbitý German: ramponiert (de), zusammengehauen (de), zusammengeschlagen (de), übel zugerichtet, angeschlagen (de), zerbeult (de) Serbo-Croatian: zlostavljan Swedish: misshandlad (sv)

(cooking) coated with batter

Hungarian: bundás (hu) Portuguese: empanado (pt)

References

• “battered”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• drabette, rebatted