They are emotionally battered and their life expectancy on the show is short.

She'd felt emotionally battered and bruised before in her life, but never quite like this.

She'd been battered emotionally and physically for five miserable years.

Others described touching reunions with old friends, some of them emotionally or physically battered from their time in prison.

The so-called 'people's constitution' fostered great hope in a population left emotionally battered by the 1997 economic crisis.

Too much had happened and I felt emotionally battered.

If I had been emotionally battered by it, what did the people think?

Ms. Rivera's mother, emotionally battered, could not defend herself or her children.

I was feeling emotionally battered and I needed a rest.

But by the late 1980's women who had been battered emotionally if not physically were a national concern.