Battering

Someone is battering at the door.

Waves were battering the shore.

The police used a battering ram to break down the door.

The SWAT team broke down the front door with a battering ram.

U.S. farmers face a growing season plagued by uncertainty about demand for their crops amid the COVID-19 crisis that is battering the global economy.

Rima was listening to Ziri and battering her eyelashes.

The Polisario Front is battering Morocco's outposts in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Haiti tries to recover from Hurricane Matthew's battering, while Floridians and other residents of the southern part of the U.S. East Coast brace for the storm's wrath.

Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.

That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.