Vocabulary
Battered
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
injured by repeated blows or punishment.
Urdu meaning
پٹا ہوا، مسمار کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- What is worth noting, however, is that despite its weak economy, battered global image, fragile security and dismal social indicators, Pakistan has managed to navigate a turbulent international order with surprising resilience.
- Since the end of June, cloudbursts and flash floods have battered KP, Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan.
- Besides riverine flooding, major cities such as Sialkot, Gujrat, Rawalpindi and Lahore have been battered by urban flooding caused by intense downpours.
- His words echo the frustration of a people once again mourning hundreds of lives lost and thousands displaced by rains that have battered KP, Gilgit-Baltistan, Karachi and beyond.
- In 1945, the eastern MSZ segment ruptured, unleashing a magnitude 8.1 quake and a devastating tsunami that battered Balochistan, Sindh and western India.
Synonyms
beaten, assaulted, thrashed, hit, thumped, abused, maltreated, ill-treated
Antonyms
unaffected, unabused.
Curator example
“he finished the day battered and bruised”
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