Synonyms for battered
bat·tered

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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, 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. Virginia:

   One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

2. Murray Rosenblith:

   There was this mad rush to yieldcos and now there's a mad rush away, but there's a bunch of yieldcos that are doing just fine but have been battered by market psychology, if you've got the stomach for it, these are great buying opportunities.

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. Jamie Seet:

   I told him I felt like a battered wife.

5. George Gascón:

   The fact that a sheriff's deputy allegedly battered a patient at San Francisco General Hospital is unnerving, what's worse is that he's also alleged to have perjured himself on a police report, unforgivable conduct that led to the arrest of the innocent victim.