BATTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battering mean? 

• BATTERING (noun)
  The noun BATTERING has 1 sense:

1. the act of subjecting to strong attack

  Familiarity information: BATTERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of subjecting to strong attack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

banging; battering

Hypernyms ("battering" is a kind of...):

combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)

 Context examples 

What characterized them was the clumsiness of too great strength—the clumsiness which the tyro betrays when he crushes butterflies with battering rams and hammers out vignettes with a war-club.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thornton saw him coming, and, as Buck struck him like a battering ram, with the whole force of the current behind him, he reached up and closed with both arms around the shaggy neck.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Their prudence, unanimity, unacquaintedness with fear, and their love of their country, would amply supply all defects in the military art. Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His romance and adventure were battering at the conventions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But no one stopped it, and he was glad, punching on wearily and endlessly with his one arm, battering away at a bloody something before him that was not a face but a horror, an oscillating, hideous, gibbering, nameless thing that persisted before his wavering vision and would not go away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)