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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.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
- 3transitive verb
To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
- 4transitive verb
A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
- 5transitive verb
Paste of clay or loam.
- 6transitive verb
A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- 7noun
A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
- 8intransitive verb
To slope gently backward.
- 9noun
One who wields a bat; a batsman.
- 10noun
a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
- 11noun
(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
- 12verb
make a dent or impression in
"dinge a soft hat"
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- 13verb
strike violently and repeatedly
"She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
- 14verb
strike against forcefully
"Winds buffeted the tent"
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