hammer
/ˈhæmɚ/ verbo B2En español: martillar, chutar
- 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 · Pasado hammered · Participio pasado hammered · Forma en -ing hammering
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- hammer
- He/she/it
- hammers
- Pasado
- hammered
- Participio pasado
- hammered
- Forma en -ing
- hammering
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.
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.
A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every rock.
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