1 old, used a lot, and not in very good condition:
a battered old car
2 [usuallybeforenoun] attacked violently and injured; attacked and badly damaged by weapons or by bad weather:
battered women / children * The child had suffered what has become known as 'battered baby syndrome.' * Rockets and shells continued to hit the battered port. * After the hurricane, thousands were rescued from the battered coastal towns.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for battered is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is battered a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, battered is tagged as adjective.
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