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Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
   • The firemen battered down the door.
2. To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
   • I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
3. (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
   • Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

   Synonyms:

   thrash

4. (UK, passive, slang, usually) To intoxicate.
   • That cocktail will batter you!

   Synonyms:

   intoxicate

5. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
   • the bible mentioned in the oath emitted this day , by Andrew Murison , as the book and bible from whence the printed leaves , battered on the B. L. Coy's notes , now challenged as forged , are alleged to be taken1826, Thomas Beveridge, A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process...

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