Synonyms of the word

batter

• v. to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
• v. to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
• v. to defeat soundly; to thrash.
• v. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
• v. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
• n. A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or…
• n. A binge, a heavy drinking session.
• n. A paste of clay or loam.
• n. (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
• v. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
• n. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
• n. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
• n. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

baste

• v. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
• v. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
• v. (by extension) To coat over something.
• v. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
• v. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

batsman

• n. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
• n. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
• n. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
• n. (baseball, now rare) A hitter.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

buffet

• n. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
• n. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
• n. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
• n. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
• v. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
• v. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
• n. A low stool; a hassock.

clobber

• v. (transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally…
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) Clothing.
• n. (Britain, slang) Equipment.

concoction

• n. (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
• n. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
• n. A mixture prepared in such a way.
• n. Something made-up, an invention.
• n. (obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
• n. (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.

deform

• v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
• v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
• v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
• v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
• v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
• adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

dinge

• n. Dinginess.
• n. (US slang, dated) A black person.
• v. to strike, scourge, beat.
• v. to flog, as in penance.

hitter

• n. Agent noun of hit; one who hits.
• n. (baseball) One who comes up to bat.

intermixture

• n. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
• n. Admixture; an additional ingredient.

mixture

• n. The act of mixing.
• n. Something produced by mixing.
• n. Something that consists of diverse elements.
• n. A medicinal compound.
• n. (South India) Chevda, Bombay mix.

slugger

• n. a boxer who tends to deliver hard punches.
• n. (baseball) a batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.