battered

Singer Katy Perry has admitted feeling "battered and bruised" by the backlash following her recent space trip, but reassured fans she is OK as would "keep looking to the light".

The friends are alive, stunned and battered — and they remember everything that happened.

Australia's eastern states have been battered by dangerous waves.

Take cornmeal: an ingredient most often associated with warm-weather classics like battered fish or cornbread.

The passages recounting her shattered emotional state and her understandable fear of the sedatives that were administered to calm her, are terrifying in their battered simplicity and clarity of purpose.