Battered vs Damaged - What's the difference?
battered | damaged |
(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.
(damage)
As verbs the difference between battered and damaged
is that battered is (batter) while damaged is (damage).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.}}