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BATTERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury
Example:
the battered woman syndrome
Classified under:
Similar:
abused; ill-treated; maltreated; mistreated (subjected to cruel treatment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Damaged by blows or hard usage
Example:
the beaten-up old Ford
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Damaged especially by hard usage
Example:
his battered old hat
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb batter
Context examples:
Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognised it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He divided them into several portions, wrapping them in oil paper, disposing of one bunch in his empty tobacco pouch, of another bunch in the inside band of his battered hat, of a third bunch under his shirt on the chest.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that he could neither move nor groan.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Hard face, battered head piece, dinted brigandine, with faded red lion of St. George ramping on a discolored ground, all proclaimed as plainly as words that he was indeed from the land of war.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I think of him, with his impenetrably wise face, walking up and down with the Doctor, delighted to be battered by the hard words in the Dictionary; when I think of him carrying huge watering-pots after Annie; kneeling down, in very paws of gloves, at patient microscopic work among the little leaves; expressing as no philosopher could have expressed, in everything he did, a delicate desire to be her friend; showering sympathy, trustfulness, and affection, out of every hole in the watering-pot; when I think of him never wandering in that better mind of his to which unhappiness addressed itself, never bringing the unfortunate King Charles into the garden, never wavering in his grateful service, never diverted from his knowledge that there was something wrong, or from his wish to set it right—I really feel almost ashamed of having known that he was not quite in his wits, taking account of the utmost I have done with mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They bristled with unknown perils, and he gazed at them, fascinated, till their dazzle became a background across which moved a succession of forecastle pictures, wherein he and his mates sat eating salt beef with sheath-knives and fingers, or scooping thick pea-soup out of pannikins by means of battered iron spoons.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The roughs had also fled at the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then came two-score more archers, ten more men-at-arms, and finally a rear guard of twenty bowmen, with big John towering in the front rank and the veteran Aylward marching by the side, his battered harness and faded surcoat in strange contrast with the snow-white jupons and shining brigandines of his companions.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The venerable cathedral towers, and the old jackdaws and rooks whose airy voices made them more retired than perfect silence would have done; the battered gateways, one stuck full with statues, long thrown down, and crumbled away, like the reverential pilgrims who had gazed upon them; the still nooks, where the ivied growth of centuries crept over gabled ends and ruined walls; the ancient houses, the pastoral landscape of field, orchard, and garden; everywhere—on everything—I felt the same serener air, the same calm, thoughtful, softening spirit.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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