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Rundown vs Battered - What's the difference?

rundown | battered |

As adjectives the difference between rundown and battered

is that rundown is while battered is beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.

As a noun rundown

is a rough outline generally used in the definite, as the rundown .

As a verb battered is

(batter).

rundown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rough outline. Generally used in the definite, as the rundown .
    • Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?
  • (baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
    • Smith is caught in a rundown , but Jones will come around to score.
  • A Caribbean stew of fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.

    • Adjective

    (-)

    • Synonyms

    * bedraggled * broken-down * dilapidated * ramshackle * ruinous * tatterdemalion * tumbledown

    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.