'Battered' in the Bible
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.
Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.
Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins.