Synonyms of batters

batters

verb

present tense third-person singular of batter

1

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

children battered the piñata until it broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• pounds
• lashes
• bats
• whips
• hits
• hides
• beats
• attacks
• knocks
• punches
• pelts
• slaps
• assaults
• spanks
• does
• smashes
• thumps
• slams
• clubs
• chops
• mauls
• curries
• hammers
• boxes
• bludgeons
• paddles
• pummels
• storms
• buffets
• whales
• wallops
• slates
• raids
• belts
• works over
• whaps
• bashes
• switches
• laces
• thrashes
• threshes
• drubs
• lambasts
• punches out
• tans
• smacks
• lathers
• bastes
• whacks
• swipes
• wounds
• slogs
• belabors
• flogs
• lambastes
• fibs
• tromps
• swats
• pommels
• socks
• roughs (up)
• birches
• bungs up
• messes (up)
• cracks
• clouts
• whups
• rushes
• beats up on
• whops
• pastes
• canes
• descends (on or upon)
• thwacks
• cuffs
• assails
• whams
• jumps (on)
• besets
• clobbers
• leathers
• cudgels
• straps
• lams
• lays on
• flagellates
• scourges
• busts
• pounces (on or upon)
• lacerates
• whomps
• horsewhips
• maims
• blackjacks
• gores
• mutilates
• pistol-whips
• rawhides
• mangles
• cowhides
• fustigates

2

as in bombs

to use bombs or artillery against

planes battered the city for weeks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bombs
• shells
• attacks
• bombards
• blitzes
• blitzkriegs
• cannonades
• pounds
• ravages
• hits
• rakes
• assaults
• strikes
• enfilades
• strafes
• assails
• devastates