Battering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BATTERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• strike repeatedly with hard blows
• censure, criticize, or defeat severely or thoroughly
• (of a wall) have a receding slope.
• subject (one's spouse, partner, or child) to repeated violence and assault
NOUN:
• a beating involving repeated blows
• a semi-liquid mixture of flour, egg, and milk or water, used for making pancakes or for coating food before frying
• a mixture of ingredients for a cake.
• a damaged area of metal type or a printing block.
• (in various sports, especially baseball) a player who is batting.
• a gradual backwards slope in a wall or similar structure
• act or practice of battering someone
• the act of subjecting to strong attack
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to beat repeatedly

Words related to BATTERING

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Words that contain BATTERING

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How to use BATTERING in a sentence

• At the door they rushed, bearing the spar as a battering ram.
• The forts at Liege were of this type and long withstood the battering of the German guns.
• At once, like battering rams logs began to shoot up from the depths of the river end foremost all about them.
• He constructed engines for battering down the walls.
• Arizona weakened fast under that continual battering at the base of his brain.
• Philip, and the French cannon were battering the ramparts of the vast citadel.
• In April, 1863, a naval attack on Charleston was planned, but was carried no farther than a severe battering of Fort Sumter.
• They had tipped out the fruit, and then run at the sound of the battering ram.
• It was the battering ram of the ancients hurled by infinite strength.
• Let each sentence be a condensed battering ram, swinging to its final blow on the attention.
• It formed itself into a battering ram with a pointed end, and this point was thrust at the heart of the English wing.
• She leapt from the bed and threw herself against the door, battering against it wildly with her fists.
• I grasped it by the barrel, and using it as a battering ram I started to smash that door.
• It plainly showed the effects of the fire and explosion, and the battering of the sea.
• Whether that battering would accomplish his purpose, he could not tell.
• Every accessible part of the camp was fortified with lines and heavy pieces of battering cannon, and the foot of the hills secured by difficult defiles.
• Drake first swooped down on San Domingo in Hayti, battering the walls from the sea while Carleill attacked them by land.
• For eleven months I fed on carrion, reposed on filth, deafened with the sound of battering cannon, the shouts of besieging rebels, and the groans of dying comrades.
• Already the gray mass were upon the veranda, battering in the door, clambering through the windows, dashing recklessly at every hole cleft by the plunging shells.
• From the rear of the castle the Norsemen brought round their machines to the gates, and with their heavy battering rams they burst in the strong doors.
• So stoutly did they assail them with their powerful battering rams that in the space of an hour the doors fell in with a loud crash.
• Indeed, not to be premature those who wielded the battering ram had to slacken their efforts more or less, though pretending to work as furiously as heretofore.
• Apparently, thus far, the Germans had not conceived the idea of battering the house to pieces with their big field guns.
• Someone was knocking violently, almost battering, at the door that led into the passage.
• At three different places the battering rams began their thundering work, and at length a corner tower came down, yet the walls stood firm, for there was no breach.
• Little help comes from battering a wall on the outside.
• On the evening of the 6th the battering rams and ladders were prepared, and it was evident that the storming of the city was soon to begin.
• The cut and thrust, gentlemen, the couched lance, even, within limits, the battering ram, would have, I feel confident, comparatively few terrors for me.
• I would wager that the Opposition papers would batter down a government of their own setting up, just as they are battering the present government, if any demand was refused.
• He might get a mask made in that pattern, indeed, and the little boys were delighted with the idea of battering it.
• Sybarite to the mercies of the police as soon as they succeeded in battering down the front door.

Similar words containing BATTER without suffix ing

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