battering
/ (ˈbætərɪŋ) /
the act or practice of battering someone
(in combination): baby-battering; granny-battering
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How to use battering in a sentence
One could picture catapults and trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers.
Team USA Goes Down Swinging in 2-1 World Cup Loss to Belgium | Tunku Varadarajan | July 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe police certainly need no more scandal—their chief was forced to resign this week after being convicted of battering his wife.
How Local Police Missed a Chance to Stop Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 | Michael Daly | July 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe monster storm battering the East Coast is hurting both presidential candidates.
Hurricane Sandy Is a Nasty October Surprise for Mitt Romney | Howard Kurtz | October 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMaybe it will require the U.S. military having enough time to restore itself after the battering of the last decade.
Peter Beinart: Romney Follows Obama’s Foreign Policy Script | Peter Beinart | October 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTClearing the air after a year and a half of political battering may not be as easy.
Florida’s Rick Scott, Battered but Unbowed by Politics and Bad Weather | Lauren Ashburn | August 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThe fragments thus delivered to the sea are in turn broken up and used as battering instruments until they are worn to pieces.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerAnd they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousBut, at a word from Perez, the apprentice closed and bolted the doors, so that the soldiers were delayed by battering them in.
Juana | Honore de BalzacNine of the battering-ships blew up, and the tenth was burnt by Curtis's boats.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt
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