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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Beating; dashing against; bruising or demolishing by beating.

battering

battering ‎(plural batterings)

A heavy beating
A large defeat
- 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
  That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.