batter

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bat·ter1 /ˈbætə $ -ər/ verb [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep, transitiveT]

HITto hit someone or something many times, in a way that hurts or damages them 殴打；连续猛击；撞击

He was battered to death.

他被殴打致死。

As a child, she was battered by her father.

她小时候遭受过父亲的殴打。

batter at/on/against etc

People were battering at the door.

人们在不停地擂门。

batter somebody with something

He was battered on the head with a cricket bat.

他头上遭板球球板猛击。

batter away

She battered away at his chest with her fists.

她用拳头捶打着他的胸口。

batter something down

Armed police battered his door down.

武装警察砸开了他的门。

Examples from the Corpus

batter• Michael Pearson, 19, of Leeds, battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub.• His campaign team was battered by a humiliating defeat in Iowa.• Each year, perhaps 4 million women are battered by their husbands.• The man she was living with was battering her, Lee-Cruz said, and she called the police.• The jury heard how Thompson had been maddened by what he saw and battered his wife to death.• There were reports of soldiers battering prisoners with their rifles.• Teachers suspect that the child is being battered regularly by his parents.

battered to death• He'd been battered to death.• Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death.• Two days later the bishop was battered to death in his home.• Mr Davidson was battered to death while his daughter's eye was pierced with a knitting needle.• I'd seen it too and it hadn't told me anything except that Moira was battered to death with a tenor sax.

Related topics: Food, dish, Baseball

batter2 noun

1 [countableC, uncountableU]DFF a mixture of flour, eggs, milk etc, used in cooking and for making bread, cakes etc 〔面粉、鸡蛋、牛奶等调成的〕面糊

Fry the fish in batter.

把鱼蘸上面糊油炸。

pancake batter

煎饼面糊

2. [countableC]DSB the person who is trying to hit the ball in baseball 〔棒球〕击球手 →5 see picture at 见图 baseball

Examples from the Corpus

batter• Nick has become as consistent as any batter in the Championship.• Hell, for Eloise, could well turn out to be full of fish batter, sliced potatoes and boiling fat.• Keep away from the fried batter and won-ton pastry dishes and ask for steamed or boiled rice.• The next batter was pinch-hitter Jeffrey Hammonds.• Stir batter down and bake cakes on a lightly greased griddle, using about cup batter per pancake.• I could see his fingers working signals behind the mitt so intensely the batter had to have seen too.• Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon.

Origin batter1

(1300-1400) Old French batre or English bat “to hit”

batter2

1. (1400-1500) Probably from → BATTER1

2. (1800-1900) → BAT2

bat·ter1 verbbatter2 noun

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