battering

Meaning of battering

verb
  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
    The firemen battered down the door.
  2. To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
    I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  3. To defeat soundly; to thrash.
    Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
  4. (usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
    I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
  5. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

verb

To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

noun
  1. A heavy beating
  2. 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

Meaning banging:

banging

Meaning :

thrash, intoxicate

Translation of battering

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