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What is another word for batting?

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Noun

Cotton, wool, silk, or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt, etc.

A segment of a game where one team takes their turn to bat

Verb

Present participle for to strike or swipe, as though with a bat

Present participle for to strike or hit repeatedly

Present participle for to flap or flutter, especially one's eyelids

Present participle for to aimlessly move or drift from place to place

Present participle for to move or cause to move in a rhythmic, flapping motion

Present participle for to move or act listlessly and aimlessly, especially due to unhappiness or boredom

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Noun

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Cotton, wool, silk, or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt, etc.

“The fires had burned through the top fabric and had begun to scorch some of the mattress batting underneath.”

Noun

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A segment of a game where one team takes their turn to bat

Verb

Present participle for to strike or swipe, as though with a bat

pummelling^UK

belaboring^US

belabouring^UK

cudgelling^UK

cudgeling^US

letting someone have it

knocking into the middle of next week

lacing to

beating the living daylights out of

giving someone a hiding

giving someone a good hiding

giving someone a beating

giving someone a drubbing

giving someone a good beating

giving someone a good drubbing

boxing someone's ears

brutalizing^US

brutalising^UK

giving someone a hot bottom

paddlewhacking

putting over one's knee

putting in the hospital

warming someone's seat

dusting someone's britches

striking with a stick

assaulting physically

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“He would bat the ball hard so that it went across the road into the cotton gin yard.”

Verb

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Present participle for to strike or hit repeatedly

pummelling^UK

belabouring^UK

belaboring^US

cudgelling^UK

cudgeling^US

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“Ignoring her, he continued to bat at the flames with his palms, refusing to stop until the fire was out.”

Verb

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Present participle for to flap or flutter, especially one's eyelids

“This was the kind of man who'd expect a woman to bat her eyelids at him while doing his washing.”

Verb

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Present participle for to aimlessly move or drift from place to place

traveling^US

travelling^UK

going hither and thither

going off at a tangent

getting sidetracked

wandering aimlessly

getting off the point

getting some exercise

walking back and forth

pounding the pavement

busing^UK

bussing^US

going on an excursion

going on a tour

going on an expedition

getting no place fast

going for a constitutional

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“I wondered why I couldn't just get a van and bat around the country doing whatever it is I do?”

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Present participle for to move or cause to move in a rhythmic, flapping motion

moving from side to side

swinging backwards and forwards

swinging back and forth

quaking in your boots

shaking in your boots

swinging from side to side

swinging to and fro

moving back and forth

moving backwards and forwards

trembling precariously

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Present participle for to move or act listlessly and aimlessly, especially due to unhappiness or boredom

getting no place fast

temporizing^US

temporising^UK

using delaying tactics

holding back

humming and hawing

hanging on

putting off doing something

buying time

playing for time

playing a waiting game

appearing to pass slowly

going on and on

going on too long

becoming tedious

sitting on one's butt

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