battering

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battering

/ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ UK
/ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/ US

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of batter

noun batterings

A heavy beating. Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled
A large defeat. That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
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@misc{battering_2026,
  title = {battering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/battering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}