batter
batter is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
- transitive verb. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
- transitive verb. A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
- transitive verb. Paste of clay or loam.
- transitive verb. A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- noun. A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
- intransitive verb. To slope gently backward.
- noun. One who wields a bat; a batsman.
- noun. a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
- noun. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
- verb. make a dent or impression in
"dinge a soft hat"
- verb. strike violently and repeatedly
"She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
- verb. strike against forcefully
"Winds buffeted the tent"
Synonyms
batsman, hitter, slugger, dinge, baste, clobber, buffet
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in batter:
Common word forms
batters, battered, batterer, battering, batterable
Words from these letters
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