BATTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battered mean? 

• BATTERED (adjective)
  The adjective BATTERED has 3 senses:

1. damaged by blows or hard usage

2. damaged especially by hard usage

3. exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury

  Familiarity information: BATTERED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Damaged by blows or hard usage

Synonyms:

battered; beat-up; beaten-up

Context example:

the beaten-up old Ford

Similar:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Damaged especially by hard usage

Context example:

his battered old hat

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury

Context example:

the battered woman syndrome

Similar:

abused; ill-treated; maltreated; mistreated (subjected to cruel treatment)

 Context examples 

What can you gather from this old battered felt?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thornton was himself bruised and battered, and he went carefully over Buck’s body, when he had been brought around, finding three broken ribs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They traveled that day and part of the next until they came to the rocky plain where the Tin Woodman lay, all battered and bent.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Models developed by Tajeddine and co-authors from France and Belgium indicate that, if Mimas is hiding a liquid water ocean, it lies 15 to 20 miles (24 to 31 kilometers) beneath the moon's impact-battered surface.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world; instead, they’re finding a landscape covered with mountains, canyons, landslides, surface-color variations and more.

(Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History, NASA)

“Don’t you dare ever to ask my leave to fight again, Jack Harrison,” said his wife, as she looked ruefully at his battered face.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sail swung round once more, and the cog, battered and torn and well-nigh water-logged, staggered in for this haven of refuge.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My hat (which had served me for a night-cap, too) was so crushed and bent, that no old battered handleless saucepan on a dunghill need have been ashamed to vie with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"You just looked good; that's why I battered you."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)