battered

Fear is right there too — fear for my daughters, for democracy, for this battered experiment of a country we still call home.

The park also has been battered by storms and typhoons.

Their corner of Ventura County was battered by powerful Santa Ana winds every fall, and those gusts stoked fires that came close but never swept into their hillside community.

Owen’s Blanche, battered by life, looked in desperate need of a good night’s sleep.

Plant people are easy to buy for — and hard too — because the really die-hard gardeners usually want nothing more than their favorite battered clippers and an old table knife for weeding.