单词	batter
释义	batter1 verbbatter2 noun batterbat‧ter1 /ˈbætə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINbatter1 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French batre or English bat ‘to hit’ Verb Table VERB TABLE batter Simple Form Present I, you, we, they batter he, she, it batters Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they battered Present perfect I, you, we, they have battered he, she, it has battered Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had battered Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will batter Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have battered Continuous Form Present I am battering he, she, it is battering you, we, they are battering Past I, he, she, it was battering you, we, they were battering Present perfect I, you, we, they have been battering he, she, it has been battering Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been battering Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be battering Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been battering Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Each year, perhaps 4 million women are battered by their husbands. His campaign team was battered by a humiliating defeat in Iowa. Teachers suspect that the child is being battered regularly by his parents. The jury heard how Thompson had been maddened by what he saw and battered his wife to death. There were reports of soldiers battering prisoners with their rifles. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Michael Pearson, 19, of Leeds, battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub. The man she was living with was battering her, Lee-Cruz said, and she called the police. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto hit someone repeatedly► beat to hit someone hard and repeatedly with your hand or with something such as a stick: · It was clear that she had been badly beaten by her husband.beat with: · Police officers had beaten the man with their batons.beat somebody black and blue (=beat someone so hard that their body is covered in marks): · The child had been beaten black and blue.beat the living daylights out of somebody (=beat someone very hard and violently): · Osborne wanted to beat the living daylights out of Flanagan. ► beat up to hit someone hard and repeatedly all over their body, leaving them badly hurt and often unable to move: · He would come home drunk, get into a fight with Mom, and beat her up.· Carl got beaten up outside a nightclub on Saturday night. ► batter to repeatedly hit someone in an uncontrolled and violent way: · Teachers suspect that the child is being battered regularly by his parents.batter with: · There were reports of soldiers battering prisoners with their rifles.batter somebody to death (=until they are dead): · The jury heard how Thompson had been maddened by what he saw and battered his wife to death. ► beat up on American to repeatedly hit someone weaker than yourself, for example a younger child at school: · He was a bully, a mean kid who beat up on the other kids. ► knock somebody about British /knock somebody around American to hit someone several times, especially in order to frighten them: · My father used to knock my mother about when he was drunk.· They had been threatened with a gun, pushed, shoved, and knocked around. ► club to hit someone very hard, especially on the head with a thick heavy object: · Football fans were clubbed by riot police trying to stop the violence.club somebody to death (=until they are dead): · Baby seals are clubbed to death for their fur. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► battered to death  He was battered to death. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► battered fish (=covered in a mixture of flour and water, and then fried)· The restaurant is well-known for its battered fish dishes. ► a storm lashes/batters a place literary· Fierce storms lashed the coastline. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► death · If I had screamed or tried to escape he would have battered me to death.· Steam hammers, in short, tended to batter themselves to death.· This time he battered Mr Simpson to death.· Two days later the bishop was battered to death in his home.· I'd seen it too and it hadn't told me anything except that Moira was battered to death with a tenor sax.· He'd been battered to death.· Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death.· Mr Davidson was battered to death while his daughter's eye was pierced with a knitting needle. ► door · Over the debris of the tower and the crushed bodies they battered the doors with it. to hit someone or something many times, in a way that hurts or damages them:  He was battered to death. As a child, she was battered by her father.batter at/on/against etc People were battering at the door.batter somebody with something He was battered on the head with a cricket bat.batter away She battered away at his chest with her fists.batter something down Armed police battered his door down. batter1 verbbatter2 noun batterbatter2 noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINbatter2 Origin: 1 1400-1500 Probably from ➔ BATTER12 1800-1900 ➔ BAT2 Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon. Hell, for Eloise, could well turn out to be full of fish batter, sliced potatoes and boiling fat. I could see his fingers working signals behind the mitt so intensely the batter had to have seen too. Keep away from the fried batter and won-ton pastry dishes and ask for steamed or boiled rice. Nick has become as consistent as any batter in the Championship. Stir batter down and bake cakes on a lightly greased griddle, using about cup batter per pancake. The next batter was pinch-hitter Jeffrey Hammonds. word sets WORD SETS► Baseball balk, verbball game, nounball park, nounballplayer, nounbase, nounbaseline, nounbat, verbbatter, nounblooper, nounbreak, nounbull pen, nounbunt, verbcatch, verbcatcher, nouncentre, noundesignated hitter, noundiamond, noundouble, noundouble, verbdouble-header, noundouble play, nounfastball, nounfirst base, nounfly, verbfly, nounfly ball, nounfoul, verbgrand slam, noungrounder, nounheavy hitter, nounhome base, nounhome plate, nounhomer, nounhome run, nouninfield, nouninning, nounmidfielder, nounmitt, nounmound, nounpark, nounpinch-hit, verbpitch, nounpitch, verbpitcher, nounpitchout, nounplate, nounpop fly, nounrebound, verbrebound, nounrun, nounshortstop, nounshut-out, nounsingle, nounslam dunk, nounslugger, nounspring training, nounsteal, verbstrikeout, nountriple, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► battered fish (=covered in a mixture of flour and water, and then fried)· The restaurant is well-known for its battered fish dishes. ► a storm lashes/batters a place literary· Fierce storms lashed the coastline. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► pour · Stir until just mixed; do not overmix. Pour batter into heated skillet.· Add egg, cover and whirl an additional minute. Pour batter into large bowl.· Add dry ingredients to persimmon mixture and mix well. Pour batter into buttered shallow 3-quart baking dish.· By hand, stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Pour batter into a greased 9-by-13-inch pan.· Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour batter into two 8-inch round, greased and lightly floured pans.· Add onions and shortening to batter and stir to blend. Pour batter into skillet. ► prepare · Let stand while preparing cake batter.· Place skillet in oven while preparing batter. 1[countable, uncountable] a mixture of flour, eggs, milk etc, used in cooking and for making bread, cakes etc:  Fry the fish in batter. pancake batter2[countable] the person who is trying to hit the ball in baseball
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