Thesaurus results for BATTERED

battered

verb

Definition of battered

past tense of batter

as in pounded

to strike repeatedly children battered the piñata until it broke open

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as in bombed

to use bombs or artillery against planes battered the city for weeks

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Recent Examples of battered Rhodes was left bruised and battered that night but was still the champion. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 The National Weather Service has repeatedly warned of dangerous rip currents and elevated surf in recent weeks as multiple southerly swells battered the coastlines of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026 The War Raiders cornered R-Truth and battered him in the corner. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Its long-range drones and missiles have battered Russia's oil sector, causing a fuel crisis there. — CBS News, 30 July 2026 Along the narrow hallway, bookshelves burst with first editions of John Updike, battered Stephen Kings, graphic novels, dime-store paperbacks, board games, books about mythology, children’s fairy tales, and Warhammer rule sets. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026 Footage shows the lifeguard holding onto the boy even as the two repeatedly get battered by waves that keep pulling them back into the surf. — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 28 July 2026 The modern city has been battered by Israeli aerial bombardment, with some strikes landing perilously close to the columns, Roman baths, and necropolis. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 27 July 2026 The air war brings regular Russian missile strikes—the most recent ones have hit Kyiv—and Ukrainian attacks that have battered Russian oil refineries and reached as far as Siberia. — Thomas Nagorski, Time, 27 July 2026

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Russia has relentlessly pounded civilian areas of Ukraine, even though Moscow insists its forces target only military facilities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Chivilli got especially pounded, surrendering three home runs.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of pounded

Verb

Theatrical revenue dropped 46 percent from the comparable quarter last year as Supergirl and The Bride bombed.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
Elsewhere, Israel bombed the Gaza Strip and the Syrian president met in Damascus with the Iraqi Kurdish regional leader over security concerns.

— Elena Becatoros, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of bombed

Verb

Her entire face got licked clean off her head when suburban floodwaters breached the cardboard hull protecting Kath’s basement memorabilia stack a few months before I was born.

— Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Grande licked one of them, and fans were immediately outraged by the moment.

— Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 16 July 2026

Definition of licked

Verb

Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz after the United States and Israel attacked the country in February.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Yemen’s Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping last month, attacked Saudi oil tankers this week, and are threatening to impose tolls, adding urgency to securing the waterway.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of attacked

Verb

Beijing lashed out, restricting vital commerce and the flow of Chinese tourists on which Japan – the world’s fourth-largest economy – depends.

— Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2026
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the CNN White House correspondent, and her colleagues have defended her against him.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026

Definition of lashed

Verb

In 2017, the object flew into our solar system, whipped around the sun like a comet, and flew back out.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2026
The blaze raged through pine forests and scrubland through the weekend, whipped by gale force winds that often prevented water-dropping planes from operating.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of whipped

Verb

The episode feinted toward genuine rapprochement before yanking the rug out, leaving the Gang pelted with an industrial-grade indoor blizzard and then happily chucking rocks at passing trains, as was Mac and Charlie’s childhood tradition.

— Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
However, during the curtain call, outstanding — or maybe just good-looking — male actors are sometimes pelted with loose flowers by their admirers.

— Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 July 2026

Definition of pelted

Verb

The subsequent drop, as well as a decline in the shares of Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla, have knocked his wealth down to $783 billion, according to Forbes.

— Bernard Condon, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Ezequiel Duran drove in four runs, the last on a game-ending double, and the Texas Rangers beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Tuesday night to snap a season-worst six-game losing streak that knocked them out of the AL West lead.

— CBS News, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

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