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battering

verb
/ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/UK/ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/US

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of batter

  2. A heavy beating.

  3. A large defeat.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Domestic violence

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at battering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at battering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at battering

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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