hammer
/ˈhæmɚ/ verb B2- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc. · Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- To hit particularly hard.
- To ride very fast.
- To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer. · I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly. · We hammered them 5-0!
- To make high demands on (a system or service).
He/she/it hammers · Past hammered · Past participle hammered · -ing form hammering
Verb forms
- Base form
- hammer
- He/she/it
- hammers
- Past
- hammered
- Past participle
- hammered
- -ing form
- hammering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of his meal.
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.
It was a good-sized hammer which had been lying on the rug in front of the fireplace—a substantial, workmanlike hammer.
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