Synonyms of battering

battering 1 of 2

noun

as in pounding

Related Words

• pounding
• hammering
• thrashing
• bashing
• pummeling
• licking
• blow
• bludgeoning
• clobbering
• thump
• hit
• buffet
• slap
• knock
• punch
• lambasting
• encounter
• rap
• contact
• meeting
• shock
• impact
• collision
• jolt
• touch
• concussion
• wallop
• impingement
• bump
• slam
• crash
• kick
• jar
• jounce
• strike
• smash

battering

2 of 2

verb

present participle of batter

1

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

children battered the piñata until it broke open

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• lashing
• beating
• whipping
• pelting
• hiding
• knocking
• hitting
• attacking
• assaulting
• thumping
• slapping
• doing
• punching
• slamming
• smashing
• pummeling
• mauling
• batting
• hammering
• spanking
• buffeting
• bashing
• chopping
• bludgeoning
• thrashing
• walloping
• smacking
• storming
• drubbing
• paddling
• raiding
• flogging
• slogging
• belting
• slating
• lathering
• clubbing
• whacking
• boxing
• lambasting
• whopping
• switching
• tanning
• wounding
• currying
• punching out
• whaling
• working over
• whupping
• swiping
• basting
• threshing
• fibbing
• cracking
• tromping
• lacing
• belaboring
• roughing (up)
• swatting
• birching
• pommeling
• assailing
• cudgeling
• messing (up)
• rushing
• clobbering
• clouting
• thwacking
• socking
• strapping
• cuffing
• pasting
• beating up on
• besetting
• bunging up
• flagellating
• busting
• lacerating
• descending (on or upon)
• caning
• scourging
• jumping (on)
• whomping
• whamming
• laying on
• pistol-whipping
• pouncing (on or upon)
• mangling
• goring
• mutilating
• leathering
• maiming
• horsewhipping
• lamming
• blackjacking
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• fustigating

2

as in bombing

to use bombs or artillery against

planes battered the city for weeks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bombing
• attacking
• bombarding
• shelling
• pounding
• blitzing
• ravaging
• cannonading
• assaulting
• blitzkrieging
• raking
• hitting
• strafing
• enfilading
• assailing
• devastating
• striking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of battering

Noun

To see it and to hear it, though — that’s the full wallop to the sternum, the battering ram that doesn’t simply destroy but cracks through, making way for a torrent of light and producing a thousand shimmering fragments. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026

Times have changed dramatically, and Labour’s recent battering came at the hands of the ascendant anti-immigrant Reform UK party on the right and, to a lesser-extent, the eco-populist Greens on the left. — ABC News, 16 May 2026

Verb

Vanity Fair reported that he was sentenced to 60 days in jail after being convicted of misdemeanor battery against a girlfriend, and was later charged with battering his third wife, Joanna Ferrell. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026

In an effort to turn the tables on Russia’s grinding war of attrition, Ukrainian long-range drones have for months been battering targets, including oil production and energy facilities, behind the front line and deep inside Russia. — ABC News, 26 June 2026