battered
Example Sentences
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Strong winds battered the country from Saturday afternoon through the night, with the Met Office recording a top wind speed of 73mph in Buchan, Aberdeenshire.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
A production outage is expected to ripple through depleted U.S. aluminum stocks in the coming months, further putting pressure on prices—which have already been battered by tariff challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The years of higher-than-expected prices have battered US households.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
Shares have been battered ever since Super Micro’s co-founder and two others linked to the company were charged with illegally smuggling chips to China.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
He wore a battered bowler hat, pulled down low over his huge toadlike eyes, and he licked his wide lips with a tongue as thick as my arm.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.