antibattery

adj

Etymology

From anti- + battery.

  1. derived from battuō
  2. derived from baterie
  3. borrowed from batterie
  4. prefixed as antibattery — “anti + battery

Definitions

  1. Opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).

    • Even though shelters and antibattery task forces are probably damn near useless to a woman madly in love, we go on hoping […]
    • Among a lot of experts and activists in the antibattery movement, the evidence has generally been accepted that one of the reasons men batter is because of something called the "male sex role stereotype."

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA