Meaning

3 senses

  1. A heavy beating.

  2. A large defeat.

  3. (dated)Domestic violence

More definitions
  • the act of subjecting to strong attack

Forms

plural: batterings
Singularbattering
Pluralbatterings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of subjecting to strong attack:banging

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbatteringly

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
battenbatterC1batteryA2battleB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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