English Explanatory Dictionary

battered woman syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A legal defense according to which a female murderer had no choice but to kill her violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.

Word forms

battered woman syndrome

Related words

battered child syndrome

Derived words

battered person syndrome
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