Batter vs Damn - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between batter and damn

is that batter is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly while damn is to condemn to hell.

As nouns the difference between batter and damn

is that batter is 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 while damn is the use of "damn" as a curse.

As an adjective damn is

Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.

As an adverb damn is

very, extremely.

As an interjection damn is

Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. See also dammit.

batter
English
(wikipedia batter)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Verb
(en verb)
to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

He battered his wife with a walking stick.

to coat with batter (the food ingredient).

I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.

to defeat soundly; to thrash

Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.

(UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate

That cocktails will batter you!

I was battered last night on our pub crawl.

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
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

To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter .

A binge, a heavy drinking session.

When he went on a batter , he became very violent.

A paste of clay or loam.

(Holland)

(printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Etymology 3
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Verb
(en verb)
(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Noun
(en noun)
An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.

Etymology 4
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Noun
(en noun)
(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.

Synonyms
* (baseball) (l)
Related terms
* (l) (cricket)
Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----
damn
English

Verb
(en verb)
(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.

The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.

Only God can ''damn.'' — ''I '''damn you eternally, fiend!

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

* Shakespeare

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.

I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.

To condemn as unfit, harmful, of poor quality, unsuccessful, invalid, immoral or illegal.

* Alexander Pope

You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] without hearing.

(profane) To curse; put a curse upon.

That man stole my wallet. Damn him!

(archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.

* Goldsmith:

while I inwardly damn .

Related terms
* damnation * damned * damnable * dammit * give a damn * tinker's damn * goddammit * God damn, goddamn * goddamned * damn skippy * damn straight * damn by association * damn with faint praise * damn the torpedoes * damn your eyes * damn your hide
Adjective
(-)
(profane) Fucking; bloody.

Shut the damn door!

Synonyms
* see also
Adverb
(-)
(profane) Very, extremely.

That car was going damn fast!

Interjection
(en interjection)
(profane)

Derived terms
* dayum * darn * dizamn
Synonyms
* see also '''
Noun
(en noun)
The use of "damn" as a curse.

said a few damns and left

(profane) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value.

The new hires aren't worth a damn .

(profane) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

I don’t give a damn .