Batter vs. Bitter — What's the Difference?

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.

Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant.

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.

Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh

To damage, as by heavy wear

Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear

To attack verbally, as with criticism.

Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity

To harass or distress, as with repeated questions.

Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment

To deliver repeated heavy blows; pound

Marked by resentment or cynicism

To coat in batter

In an intense or harsh way; bitterly

To construct so as to create an upwardly receding slope.

To make bitter.

A damaged area on the face of type or on a plate.

That which is bitter

The player at bat in baseball and cricket.

Bitters A bitter, usually alcoholic liquid made with herbs or roots and used in cocktails or as a tonic.

A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, milk, and eggs, used in cooking.

Chiefly British A sharp-tasting beer made with hops.

A slope, as of the outer face of a wall, that recedes from bottom to top.

Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

Harsh, piercing or stinging.

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

Hateful or hostile.

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

Cynical and resentful.

To intoxicate.

(usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

(nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.

A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.

A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits binary digits.

A binge; a heavy drinking session.

To make bitter.

A paste of clay or loam.

AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

(cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.

(cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.

(cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

To make bitter.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

The taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

To slope gently backward.

The property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Make bitter

Paste of clay or loam.

Marked by strong resentment or cynicism;

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Very difficult to accept or bear;

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Harsh or corrosive in tone;

The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

One of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

Expressive of severe grief or regret;

A flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

Proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity;

Strike against forcefully;

Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold;

Strike violently and repeatedly;

Extremely and sharply;

Make a dent or impression in;