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Batteried vs Battered - What's the difference?

batteried | battered |

As adjectives the difference between batteried and battered

is that batteried is having a (specified kind of) battery while battered is beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.

As a verb battered is

(batter).

batteried

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having a (specified kind of) battery.
  • * 2009 , Dan Walsh, Endless Horizon (page 52)
    • In Bamako, the cops had one flat-batteried flat-twin Beemer, fat rider getting a sweaty running bump start at every call-out
  • * 2012 , Walter Block, Devils River Country (page 126)
    • I backtracked into the bedroom and got a weak-batteried Boy Scout flashlight. The yellowish, puny-beamed shaft oflight revealed the proud new tiles of our living room floor being covered with an expanding pool of water.

    battered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (batter)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
  • (label) Coated with batter.