batter

Verb

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
2. To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
3. (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
4. (UK, passive, slang, usually) To intoxicate.
5. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
3. (countable, uncountable) A paste of clay or loam.
4. (countable) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Noun

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Noun

1. The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
2. A player of the batting side now on the field.
3. The player now receiving strike; the striker.
4. Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbætə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bateren

Inherited from Middle English: bature

In summary

From Middle English batteren, batren, bateren, a frequentative of Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), equivalent to bat + -er (frequentative suffix).

Synonyms

beat

dough

pound

💷

hitter

thrash

smash

strike

ram

🐏

clobber

buffet

pastry

maul

hit

crush

batsman

beat up

hit repeatedly

work over

thump

baste

dinge

drub

do over

bash up

punch

👊

slugger

knock about

hammer

🔨

cudgel

mistreat

abuse

cream

bludgeon

crash

contort

blow

constriction

collide

binge

gradient

escarpment

club

belabour

bachelor

encounter

emboss

carouse

fight

embankment

butt

Translations

frappeur

pâte

battre

impasto

κουρκούτι

beslag

battere

schlagen

frapper

Teig

σφυροκοπώ

batteur

zerschlagen

prügeln

ciasto