Injured vs Battered - What's the difference?
injured | battered |
(injure)
(batter)
Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
(label) Coated with batter.
As verbs the difference between injured and battered
is that injured is (injure) while battered is (batter).As an adjective battered is
beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.injured
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* Nouns to which "injured" is often applied: man, woman, child, worker, employee, patient, athlete, player, driver, passenger, victim, animal, horse, dog, bird, body, knee, ankle, back, muscle, tissue, leg, arm, hand, foot, head, eye, feelings.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.}}