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battered





ADJECTIVE
maimed
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




ADJECTIVE
struck
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But this current campaign has left Sale battered and bruised and those foundations severely tested.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"For the next week we just had tuna every day, it was a bit like Forrest Gump and the shrimp, we had curried tuna, fried tuna, battered tuna, beer-battered tuna, raw tuna."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Taylor Morrison is a stalwart in an out-of-favor industry battered by high mortgage rates and expensive housing prices—the kind of company that Buffett eagerly snapped up for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

They crushed Lamar 19-6 on Saturday and then battered Texas State.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

I thought I was dying, too, and yet there I stood, battered and bruised but more or less fully functioning.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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