Battered Meaning
/ˈbætəd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of batter
adjBeaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
Sentence Examples
The firemen battered down the door.
He had an old pickup truck and a big, battered mower.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old car was so ____ that it barely ran after the accident.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old car looked very ____ after many long years of use on the farm.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English bat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English batter English -ed English battered From batter + -ed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green."
— 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
"While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised."
— 1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2014:
"There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather!"
— 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old car was so ____ that it barely ran after the accident.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old car looked very ____ after many long years of use on the farm.