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battered

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battered
adjective
1 a battered wife:
beaten, assaulted, thrashed, hit, thumped;
abused, maltreated, ill-treated, mistreated, misused, victimized, downtrodden, tyrannized.
2 a battered blue van:
damaged, shabby, run down, worn out, falling to pieces, falling apart, dilapidated, rickety, ramshackle, crumbling, decayed, antiquated, superannuated, the worse for wear, on its last legs;
Australian, New Zealand, informal rumpty.