Battering Synonyms

To damage
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. injuring
  2. mauling
  3. smashing
  4. wrecking
  5. mangling
Strike against forcefully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. clobbering
  2. pounding
  3. hitting
  4. pummelling
  5. beating
  6. hammering
  7. buffeting
  8. smiting
  9. mauling
  10. razing
  11. lambasting
  12. ramming
  13. threshing
  14. thrashing
  15. pelting
  16. smashing
  17. basting
  18. pasting
  19. assaulting
  20. destroying
  21. punishing
  22. denting
  23. drubbing
  24. demolishing
  25. crushing
  26. belaboring
  27. crippling
  28. bruising
  29. bombarding
  30. assailing
To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. beating
To harass or distress, as with repeated questions.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assaulting
The act of subjecting to strong attack
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. banging

Words Related to Battering

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Battering Sentence Examples

  • Officers in riot gear used a battering ram to break in to the ground floor flat.

  • In 1813, when he was before San Sebastian, the ammunition ran short; a battering train, long demanded, reached him not only some time after it was needed, but even then with only one day's provision of shot and shell.

  • But her fragile 75ft trimaran, B&Q, is taking a battering in the rough seas of the Southern Ocean.

  • Although the babies did well in the hospital, a troubling percentage of them seemed not to prosper at home and were even victims of battering and abuse.

  • The Ciudad gallantry of the troops made it successful, though with Rodrigo, the loss of Generals Craufurd and McKinnon, and 1300 ulfrary s men, and Marmont's battering train of 150 guns here fell into the allied hands.

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