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battering

 
Noun battering has 1 sense
  1. battering, banging - the act of subjecting to strong attack
    --1 is a kind of fight, fighting, combat, scrap
Verb batter has 3 senses
  1. buffet, knock about, batter - strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent"
    --1 is one way to strike
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. clobber, baste, batter - strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
    --2 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
    Sample sentence:
    They want to batter the prisoners
  3. dinge, batter - make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat"
    --3 is one way to change shape, change form, deform
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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