batter

About 1.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

   The firemen battered down the door.

2. verb To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

   I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.

3. verb To defeat soundly; to thrash.

   Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

4. verb To intoxicate.

   That cocktail will batter you!

5. verb To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
6. verb To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
7. noun A mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), archetypically beaten (but in practice sometimes gently folded), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.

   To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.

8. noun A binge; a heavy drinking session.

   When he went on a batter, he became very violent.

Similar words

clobber hitter slugger dinge baste buffet knock about batsman hitting hit

Often followed by

into and is the down in to of for

Word family

battered batterer batterers battering batters