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- DictionaryBat·ter/ˈbadər/
verb
- 1. strike repeatedly with hard blows: "he was battered and falsely imprisoned by the officers"
The meaning of BATTER is to beat with successive blows so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish. How to use batter in a sentence.
a mixture containing ingredients such as flour, butter, sugar, and eggs that will be baked and become a cake or cakes: I used to love eating the last bits of cake batter from the bowl. Divide the batter among 12 muffin cups. In most classic cake batters you typically add eggs to the batter.
to beat persistently or hard; pound repeatedly. Synonyms: pelt, smite, belabor. to damage by beating or hard usage: Rough roads had battered the car. High winds were battering the coast. Synonyms: ruin, destroy, shiver, shatter, smash, wound, bruise.
Noun. Filter. verb. battered, battering, batters. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. American Heritage. To coat in batter. Battered the vegetables and then fried them. American Heritage. To beat or strike with blow after blow; pound. Webster's New World. To pound noisily and repeatedly. Webster's New World.
To batter is to beat repeatedly, as if one boxer were clobbering another with blows. Batter is one of those words with many meanings that seem entirely unrelated to each other. You can batter by hitting again and again, but there's also a batter in baseball — the guy who's holding a bat and waiting for the pitcher to throw the ball.
a mixture used to cover food before frying it, usually containing flour, eggs, and milk or water: in batter I find that fish fried in batter is lighter and crispier. Chefs over the world include tempura dishes on their menus, using a wide variety of different batters and ingredients.
batter to hit somebody/ something hard a lot of times, especially in way that causes serious injury or damage: He had been badly battered around the head and face. Severe winds have been battering the coast.
Definitions of 'batter' 1. To batter someone means to hit them many times, using fists or a heavy object. [...] 2. If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner. [...] 3. If a place is battered by wind, rain, or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected by very bad weather. [...]
to deal heavy, repeated blows; pound steadily: continuing to batter at the front door.
Definition of batter verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
