Synonyms for BATTERED
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1. battered, beat-up, beaten-upadjective

   damaged by blows or hard usage

   "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford"

   Synonyms:
   beat-up, battered, beaten-up

   Antonyms:
   new, unabused, undamaged

2. batteredadjective

   damaged especially by hard usage

   "his battered old hat"

   Synonyms:
   beat-up, beaten-up

   Antonyms:
   new, undamaged, unabused

3. batteredadjective

   exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury

   "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome"

   Synonyms:
   beat-up, beaten-up

   Antonyms:
   new, unabused, undamaged

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1. List of paraphrases for "battered":

   beaten, abused, ill-treated, shattered, shell-battered, mistreated, maltreated, wrecked

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1. Victor Thianpiriya:

   The confidence in gold as a supposed safe haven or as an investment has been battered over the last few years.

2. Mark Priest:

   There's a sense of relief. There's so much nervousness in the market at the moment that even slightly good news out of a bank like Commerzbank is taken very well, the German banking sector has been pretty battered, and The German banking sector's got to a point where there may be value there, so long as global economic factors start to calm down. Germany's DAX was up 1.4 percent. Traders said that growth data from Germany, which showed growth was steady and in line with expectations, provided reassurance after economic fears had pegged back markets this week. The FTSEurofirst 300 nonetheless remains down 5 percent this week, with banks still down around 7.5 percent on the week, hit by concerns over profitability in a low growth, low interest rate environment. Caution over exposure to default from the energy sector has also hindered bank stocks. On Friday, the oil and gas sector rose 3.1 percent after a rally in oil which left crude prices up over 3 percent. Growth sensitive mining stocks also rallied, up over 3 percent. In other corporate news, Rolls Royce rallied 11.9 percent after Rolls Royce results, Rolls Royce biggest one-day rise since November 2008. It stuck to its 2016 guidance, despite being forced to cut its dividend following three profit warnings last year. It said there would be no need for a rights issue.

3. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

4. President Nicolas Maduro:

   You all know that a military general of the United States doesn't predict, he orders and the battered Venezuelan right-wing executes.

5. Larry Gelbart:

   I think one of the by-products of the communications explosion is a sort of corruption fatigue. We've lost our ability to be shocked or enraged by the machinations of politicians. We've been battered with such frequency that we've become indifferent. We're punch drunk with scandal.