Meaning & use
battering
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Present participle of 'batter': striking repeatedly and forcefully, or coating food in a liquid mixture of flour and eggs before frying.
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Waves kept battering the seawall throughout the night.
She was battering the fish fillets before dropping them into the hot oil.
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As a noun in the phrase 'a battering,' the word describes a sustained physical or figurative beating, as in 'the team took a battering in the second half.'
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