batted
- 1Simple past and past participle of bat.
The rookie batted .320 across his first full season.
Their cleanup hitters have batted in countless runs over the years.
Note
One regular form does every job for the verb, with the final t doubled before -ed: she batted, she has batted. Most uses are sporting or physical: batted the ball away, batted second, batted .320. The same spelling also carries the fluttering sense, as in batted her eyelashes, and a dialect meaning "winked" found in both Britain and America. Context, not form, tells a hit from a flicker of the eye.
batted is a form of bat
bat, verb: To take a turn at hitting the ball with a bat in sports such as cricket, baseball, and softball, rather than fielding. Full entry
- Spelling
- bat → batted: double the t, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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