batter

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batter的基本意思是“连续猛击；持续打击；冲击；撞击”，指猛烈打击使人或物严重受伤、变形或毁坏，表示严重毁损外形但不失去肢体或组成部分，常译作“捣毁”“砸烂”“重创”等。可用作及物动词或不及物动词。
batter还可表示因不加爱惜而“磨损”或“用坏”，是及物动词，常用于被动结构。
batter还可作“使遭受猛烈攻击或批评”解，其宾语一般为某人、某观点或某理论，是及物动词。
batter用作及物动词时后接副词down表示“不断打击某物使之倒下”,后接介词to表示“经常猛力打击使某物变成…状”;用作不及物动词时后接介词against或at表示“连续猛击某人〔物〕”。

to hit and behave violently towards a person, especially a woman or child, repeatedly over a long period of time, or to hit something with force many times
(FOOD) a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk, used to make pancakes or to cover food before frying it
(PLAYER) the person in baseball or rounders who hits the ball

To batter someone means to hit them many times, using fists or a heavy object.
battered
If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
battering
If a place is battered by wind, rain, or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected by very bad weather.
If you batter something, you hit it many times, using your fists or a heavy object.
Batter is a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk that is used in cooking.
In sports such as baseball and softball, a batter is a person who hits the ball with a wooden bat.
the slope of the face of a wall that recedes gradually backwards and upwards
to have such a slope
a spree or debauch
&rarrsee also battered , battering