Battering
['bætərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batter
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Examples
- They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That's very kind of him, considering the battering I gave him yesterday. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What if we got one, and used it as a battering-ram against the door? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Haply, but for her, I should ha' gone battering mad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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