To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. / (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient). / (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash. / (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat. / (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field. / (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

(cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.

simple past tense and past participle of batter

Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered. / Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up. / (cooking) Coated with batter (noun).

One who batters. / (cooking) One who applies batter. / One who batters their spouse: one who commits domestic violence.

plural of batterer

Able or fit to be battered.