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Hammering

verb
Word Frequency: 1.1

Definitions

1.verbTo strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
"Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open."
2.verbTo form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
3.verbTo emphasize a point repeatedly.
4.verbTo hit particularly hard.
5.verbTo ride very fast.
6.verbTo strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
"I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown."
7.verbTo defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
"We hammered them 5-0!"
8.verbTo make high demands on (a system or service).
9.verbTo declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
10.verbTo beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
11.verbTo have hard sex with
"Daniel hammered Mary til he came."
12.nounA period of being beaten or hammered.
"Hearing a hammering on the door, I ran downstairs to open it."
13.nounA dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
14.nounA heavy defeat.

Synonyms

poundpoundingbatteringthrashingthumpingpeeningbattementhammer blowwhackinglambastingpummelingpummelling

Rhymes With

clamoringstammeringgotterdammerungenamoring
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