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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
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SYLLABICATION:bat·ter
PRONUNCIATION:  btr
NOUN: A slope, as of the outer face of a wall, that recedes from bottom to top.
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters
To construct so as to create an upwardly receding slope.
ETYMOLOGY:Origin unknown.
 
 
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