battering
Meaning of battering
verb
- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
The firemen battered down the door.
- To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- To defeat soundly; to thrash.
Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- (usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
- To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
verb
To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
noun- A heavy beating
- A large defeat
Information about battering
- The plural form of battering is: batterings.
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Hyphenation of battering
bat-ter-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- battering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
battering synonyms
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Translation of battering
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