batter

Plural: batters

Noun

• (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
• a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
• A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
• A binge; a heavy drinking session.
• A paste of clay or loam.
• A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
• An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
• The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
• A player of the batting side now on the field.
• The player now receiving strike; the striker.
• Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

Verb

Verb Forms: battered, battering, batters

• To strike repeatedly with hard blows.
• strike against forcefully
• strike violently and repeatedly
• make a dent or impression in
• To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
• To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
• To defeat soundly; to thrash.
• To intoxicate.
• To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
• To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
• To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Examples

• His high-scoring plays continued to batter my morale into submission.
• I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
• I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
• Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
• That cocktail will batter you!
• The firemen battered down the door.
• The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
• To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.
• When he went on a batter, he became very violent.

Synonyms

baste, batsman, buffet, clobber, dinge, hitter, knock about, slugger, bender, binge, intoxicate, thrash

Related Words

at bat, baseball bat, bat, battery

Anagrams of batter