Battered vs Mistreated - What's the difference?
battered | mistreated |
(batter)
Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
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, title= Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
(label) Coated with batter.
As verbs the difference between battered and mistreated
is that battered is past tense of batter while mistreated is past tense of mistreat.As an adjective battered
is beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.battered
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(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered -looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}