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battering

US // (ˈbætərɪŋ) //

殴打,敲打,敲击,敲击声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or practice of battering someonebaby-battering; granny-battering

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbstrike and damage
Antonyms

Examples

  • One could picture catapults and trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers.

  • The police certainly need no more scandal—their chief was forced to resign this week after being convicted of battering his wife.

  • The monster storm battering the East Coast is hurting both presidential candidates.

  • Maybe it will require the U.S. military having enough time to restore itself after the battering of the last decade.

  • Clearing the air after a year and a half of political battering may not be as easy.

  • And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

  • The fragments thus delivered to the sea are in turn broken up and used as battering instruments until they are worn to pieces.

  • And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.

  • But, at a word from Perez, the apprentice closed and bolted the doors, so that the soldiers were delayed by battering them in.

  • Nine of the battering-ships blew up, and the tenth was burnt by Curtis's boats.