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Meaning of "baby-battering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BABY-BATTERING

baby-battering  [ˈbeɪbɪˌbætərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BABY-BATTERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Baby-Battering is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BABY-BATTERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of baby-battering in the English dictionary

The definition of baby-battering in the dictionary is physical abuse of a baby or young child.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BABY-BATTERING


battering
ˈbætərɪŋ
catering
ˈkeɪtərɪŋ
centering
ˈsɛntərɪŋ
chattering
ˈtʃætərɪŋ
factoring
ˈfæktərɪŋ
flattering
ˈflætərɪŋ
fostering
ˈfɒstərɪŋ
glittering
ˈɡlɪtərɪŋ
Kettering
ˈkɛtərɪŋ
lettering
ˈlɛtərɪŋ
mentoring
ˈmɛntərɪŋ
monitoring
ˈmɒnɪtərɪŋ
motoring
ˈməʊtərɪŋ
plastering
ˈplɑːstərɪŋ
scattering
ˈskætərɪŋ
shattering
ˈʃætərɪŋ
smattering
ˈsmætərɪŋ
tutoring
ˈtjuːtərɪŋ
unflattering
ʌnˈflætərɪŋ
watering
ˈwɔːtərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BABY-BATTERING

baby talk
baby teeth
baby tooth
baby wipe
baby-batterer
baby-blue
baby-boomer
Baby-bouncer
baby-doll pyjamas
baby-face
baby-faced
Baby-gro
baby-minder
baby-minding
baby-mother
baby-scales
baby-sit
baby-sitter
baby-sitting
baby-walker

WORDS THAT END LIKE BABY-BATTERING

bring
civil engineering
considering
covering
electrical engineering
empowering
engineering
fingering
flowering
gathering
hovering
lowering
mechanical engineering
offering
ordering
recovering
rendering
steering
suffering
wandering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of baby-battering in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «baby-battering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BABY-BATTERING

Find out the translation of baby-battering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of baby-battering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «baby-battering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

婴儿殴打
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

baby- maltrato
570 millions of speakers

English

baby-battering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बच्ची की battering
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رضيع الضرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ребенок - рукоприкладства
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

baby- espancamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিশুর-battering
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

baby- coups
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemukul bayi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Baby - Misshandlung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

赤ちゃん虐待
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아기 수모
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Baby-battering
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

baby- đập
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழந்தை பீரங்கியால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाळ-बटाटा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bebek dövme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

baby- battering
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

baby- bicie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дитина - рукоприкладства
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

baby- battering
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

baby - πολιορκητικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

baba - mishandeling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

baby- batte
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

babyen - batte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of baby-battering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BABY-BATTERING»

The term «baby-battering» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.823 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BABY-BATTERING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about baby-battering

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABY-BATTERING»

Discover the use of baby-battering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to baby-battering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Sociology
It is useful to differentiate physical abuse of children—child abuse or 'baby battering'—from child sexual abuse. Baby battering became an issue of widespread concern and the basis for a *moral panic in the 1960s, as discussed in particular ...
John Scott, Gordon Marshall, 2009
2
Subversive Family
Popular newspapers now are full of stories of brutality towards children by parents, 'baby-battering'. Great indignation is worked up, particularly towards the social ser- vices which fail to notice the bruises until it is too late and the child is dead ...
Ferdinand Mount, 2010
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Cruelty, Violence, and Murder: Understanding the Criminal Mind
There are other types of escalating violence: baby battering, for example, gang violence, violence associated with drug or alcohol intoxication, and need and violence erupting in the case of a pyrexial physical illness. In addition, there is ...
Arthur Hyatt-Williams, Paul Williams, 1998
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Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development 1983
Additionally, it has often been claimed that mothers prone to baby battering are mothers who have not been bonded to their babies soon after delivery. Cater and Easton (1980) set out to check this claim. They investigated 80 cases of child ...
Stella Chess, Alexander Thomas, 1983
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New Scientist
Following the discovery of wife-battering, husband-battering and baby-battering, the latest syndrome of familial fisticuffs to hit the headlines (at least in the American Journal of Psychiatry, vol 136, p 10) is parent-battering. Henry T. Harbin, MD, ...
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Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice: Improving the ...
The first time I actually saw classic baby-battering myself. They all belong to a subculture of batterers. My God, a bloody Walsh, God help us. SW: But she is a Walsh by marriage only. N 52: Oh it doesn't matter. It isn't a question of the genes.
Eileen Gambrill, 2006
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Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self
Further, like baby battering, each type of behavior labeled child abuse came to share the implication of serious harm to the child, in both the near and longer term. Kempe and his colleagues not only identified immediate (and sometimes ...
Joseph E. Davis, 2005
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Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
... sexual molestation as a serious danger or indeed as a significant social problem, Modem concepts of child abuse grew out of the recognition from about 1962 of "baby battering" and other forms of violence inflicted on children in their homes, ...
Philip Jenkins, 2001
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Dictionary of Social Welfare
Family violence This term is increasingly used to refer to two problems, not always occurring together in the same situation, i.e. 'baby battering' and 'wife battering'. The first term is quite frequently replaced by the wider term 'child abuse ' or the ...
Professor Noel W Timms, Rita Timms, Noel Timms, 2013
10
Dictionary of Jargon
... eg: CIA assassinations and allied illegal forms of destabilisation. family violence n [Social work] a general term that covers 'baby battering' and 'wife battering' and is being extended to cover a relatively new phenomenon - 'granny bashing': ...
Jonathon Green, 2013

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABY-BATTERING»

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New charges in Belvidere baby-battering case; 7-month-old …
BELVIDERE — A man accused of battering his girlfriend's 7-month-old child also faces charges of aggravated assault of a child under 13 years ... «Rockford Register Star, Jul 14»

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