Battered
['bætəd] or ['bætɚd]
Definition
(adj.) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury; 'a battered child'; 'the battered woman syndrome' .
(adj.) damaged by blows or hard usage; 'a battered old car'; 'the beaten-up old Ford' .
(adj.) damaged especially by hard usage; 'his battered old hat' .
Typist: Natalie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Batter
Typed by Blanche
Examples
- When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I suppose you are only just come down--you look rather battered--you have not been long enough in the town to hear anything? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am much too battered and old for such a fine young lady as Glorvina. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Lily, to whom the name conveyed nothing, opened the door upon a woman in a battered bonnet, who stood firmly planted under the hall-light. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Sebastopol is probably the worst battered town in Russia or any where else. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On Egdon Heath Sunday proper did not begin till dinner-time, and even then it was a somewhat battered specimen of the day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I thought he looked rather battered and depressed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What can you gather from this old battered felt? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I struck at the skylight, and battered in the cracked, loosened glass at a blow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Meantime the clothier did not neglect his battered mill. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She won't have anything to say to a battered old hulk like that, sir. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typed by Blanche