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. Hassan Umar:

   It was an eyesore looking at the scene which is littered with chopped flesh and battered bodies of victims, about 16 bodies were evacuated from the scene while over 30 persons were injured. Most casualties were children hawking sachets of water and peanuts. Some were begging for alms.

2. Virginia:

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

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. Dominic Ratau:

   With the rand getting battered like this, firing Nene is not the right move, i've been an ANC supporter because of the older generation who were running the party. But this guy is leading the country to disaster. He's allowed too much corruption.

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.