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antibattery

antibattery adjective: opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).

Adjective

antibattery (comparative more antibattery, superlative most antibattery)

  1. Opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).
    • Even though shelters and antibattery task forces are probably damn near useless to a woman madly in love, we go on hoping […]1998, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: in praise of difficult women
    • Among a lot of experts and activists in the antibattery movement, the evidence has generally been accepted that one of the reasons men batter is because of something called the "male sex role stereotype."2000, John Stoltenberg, Refusing to be a man: essays on sex and justice

Forms of antibattery

comparativemore antibattery
superlativemost antibattery

Origin of antibattery

From anti- + battery.

Questions about antibattery

What does antibattery mean?
Antibattery means opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).
What part of speech is antibattery?
Antibattery is an adjective.

Words near antibattery in the dictionary

  1. antibaryonic
  2. antibaryons
  3. antibaseball
  4. antibasketball
  5. antibathing
  6. antibattery
  7. antibear
  8. antibeauty
  9. antibechic
  10. antibechics
  11. antibedbug

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