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Pronunciation: [bˈatənd] (IPA)

Battened is a word that refers to securing or fastening something tightly. Some synonyms for Battened include tightened, clamped, secured, anchored, and lashed. Other synonyms include fixed, fastened, affixed, snug, cinched, and strapped. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation, but they all share the same sense of binding and securing something firmly in place. For example, tightened suggests making something snug and secure, while anchored implies tying something down to prevent it from drifting. Regardless of the specific word used, the meaning is clear - Battened refers to ensuring that something is held securely in place.
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She says you can't imagine how splendid the scene was, with all those different costumes, and the rooms a perfect blaze of waxlights; the windows were Battened, so that you couldn't tell when it came daylight, and she hadn't any idea how the time was passing.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
The crew continued on deck, holding fast on to the stanchions, belaying-pins, and the rigging, to save themselves from being washed away; for every now and then a sea tumbled on board, and swept along the deck, sometimes over one quarter, sometimes over another, and frequently over the bows; but the hatches had been Battened down, and no water got below.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
Wurtemberg had Battened down the flames, it is true; but the deck of Europe was hot under foot with the passions that were soon to make the Turks' atrocities seem gentle in comparison.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue

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