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ˈbattering

/ ˈbætərɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or practice of battering someone
2. ( in combination )
  baby-battering
  granny-battering

One could picture catapults and trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers.

The police certainly need no more scandal—their chief was forced to resign this week after being convicted of battering his wife.

The monster storm battering the East Coast is hurting both presidential candidates.

Maybe it will require the U.S. military having enough time to restore itself after the battering of the last decade.

Clearing the air after a year and a half of political battering may not be as easy.

And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

The fragments thus delivered to the sea are in turn broken up and used as battering instruments until they are worn to pieces.

And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.

But, at a word from Perez, the apprentice closed and bolted the doors, so that the soldiers were delayed by battering them in.

Nine of the battering-ships blew up, and the tenth was burnt by Curtis's boats.

April 17, 2024axolotl

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