battered

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

damaged by blows or hard usage“a battered old car”“the beaten-up old Ford”Synonyms: beat-up beaten-up
damaged especially by hard usage“his battered old hat”
exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury“a battered child”“the battered woman syndrome”

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Batter \Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Battered (b[a^]t"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Battering.] [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to abate.] [1913 Webster]

1.To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart. [1913 Webster]

2.To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." --Pope. [1913 Webster]

3.(Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. [1913 Webster]

battered \battered\ adj.

1.In deplorable condition; as, the battered old Ford station wagon.

Syn: beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound. [WordNet 1.5]

2.Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows; as, a battered old car; antomyn of unbattered. [Narrower terms: buffeted; storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept] [WordNet 1.5]

3.Damaged especially by hard usage. his battered old hat [WordNet 1.5]

4.beaten repeatedly; -- of people; as, a battered child; the battered woman syndrome; a battered wife.

Syn: beaten. [WordNet 1.5]