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Definition of 'storm-tossed tempest-tossed tempest-tost tempest-swept'
From: GCIDE
- battered \battered\ adj.
- 1. In deplorable condition; as, the battered old Ford station wagon.
- Syn: beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. Hit or pounded repeatedly and violently with heavy blows; as, a battered old car; antomyn of unbattered. [Narrower terms: buffeted; {storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept}] [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. Damaged especially by hard usage. his battered old hat [WordNet 1.5]
- 4. beaten repeatedly; -- of people; as, a battered child; the battered woman syndrome; a battered wife.
- Syn: beaten. [WordNet 1.5]