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brickbatted

brickbatted is the simple past and past participle of brickbat.

Meaning of brickbat

Verb

brickbat (third-person singular simple present brickbats, present participle brickbatting, simple past and past participle brickbatted)

  1. (transitive) To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1).
    • We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each.1904, “Crime in Georgia”, in W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, editor, Some Notes on Negro Crime, Particularly in Georgia […] (The Atlanta University Publications; 9), Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta...
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.

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Questions about brickbatted

What is brickbatted the simple past and past participle of?
Brickbatted is the simple past and past participle of brickbat.

Words near brickbatted in the dictionary

  1. brick-wall limiters
  2. brickable
  3. Brickaville
  4. brickbat
  5. brickbats
  6. brickbatted
  7. brickbatting
  8. brickbattings
  9. brickclay
  10. brickclays
  11. brickcoloured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brickbatted (page history and authors); brickbat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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