batter
Noun:
- A liquid or semiliquid mixture used in cooking: A thick, pourable mixture of ingredients like flour, eggs, and milk, used to make foods such as pancakes, cakes, or fried items.
- (Baseball) The player at bat: In baseball or softball, the offensive player whose turn it is to face the pitcher and attempt to hit the ball.
Verb:
- To strike repeatedly with heavy blows: To hit something hard and often, causing damage or destruction.
- To damage or dent by striking: To cause a surface to become misshapen or dented through forceful impact.
- (Of wind, waves, etc.) To strike against forcefully: To pound or beat against something with repeated force.
Noun (Cooking mixture):
- Pour the pancake batter onto the hot griddle.
- The recipe calls for a smooth, lump-free batter.
Noun (Baseball player):
- The next batter stepped up to the plate.
- She is the team's best batter.
Verb (To strike repeatedly):
- The storm began to batter the coastline.
- He used a hammer to batter the metal into shape.
- The boxer battered his opponent with a series of powerful punches.
"Battered" (Adjective): Describing something that has been damaged by repeated blows or hard use.
- They lived in a battered old house by the sea.
- He arrived home in a battered car.
"To batter down": To break or destroy something, especially a door or barrier, by hitting it repeatedly.
- The police had to batter down the door to enter the building.
Battering (Noun): The act of striking something repeatedly; a severe beating.
- The old ship could not withstand the constant battering of the waves.
Batter (Noun, Architecture): A receding upward slope of a wall or structure. (Note: This is a specialized, less common meaning.)
- The fortress walls were built with a slight batter for added stability.
- Verb: Pound, pummel, beat, hammer, strike, buffet.
- Noun (Player): Hitter, batsman.
- Noun (Mixture): Dough (though "dough" is typically thicker), mix.
Batter away: To repeatedly hit at something, often to remove it or get past it.
- He tried to batter away the ice blocking the door.
Batter at/against: To strike repeatedly against a surface.
- Rain battered against the windowpane all night.
"Battered and bruised": Physically injured and worn out, either literally or metaphorically.
- After the long campaign, the politician emerged battered and bruised.
"Take a battering": To suffer severe damage, criticism, or defeat.
- The company's reputation took a battering after the scandal.
- a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
- (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
- make a dent or impression in
- dinge a soft hat
- strike violently and repeatedly
- She clobbered the man who tried to attack her
- strike against forcefully
- Winds buffeted the tent