Pronunciation Verb
batter (batters, present participle battering; past and past participle battered)
- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
- The firemen battered down the door.
- (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
- Synonyms: thrash
- Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification ↗," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.
- (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
- Synonyms: intoxicate
- That cocktails will batter you!
- I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
- (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
batter (plural batters)
- (cooking) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying
- pancake batter
- To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.
- A binge, a heavy drinking session.
- Synonyms: binge
- When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
- A paste of clay or loam.
- (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- French: pâte
- German: Backteig, Panade
- Italian: impasto, pastella
- Portuguese: polme
- Russian: те́сто
- Spanish: batido
- German: Gelage, Trinkgelage, Saufgelage, Besäufnis
- Italian: bisboccia, gozzoviglia
- Russian: запо́й
- Spanish: botellón
batter (batters, present participle battering; past and past participle battered)
- (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
batter (plural batters)
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
- Spanish: pendiente
batter (plural batters)
- (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
- The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
- (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.
- Synonyms: batsman
- 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo ↗
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- French: batteur, frappeur
- German: Batter
- Italian: battitore
- Portuguese: batedor
- Russian: бэ́ттер
- Spanish: bateador
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