hammer — OAT · Shobdo

hammer

noun

they work the stone with hammer and chisel:

mallet, beetle, gavel.

verb

1 the alloy is hammered into a circular shape:

beat, forge, shape, form, mold, fashion, make.

2 Sally hammered at the door:

batter, pummel, beat, bang, pound;

strike, hit, knock on, thump on;

cudgel, bludgeon, club, pelt, assail, thwack;

informal bash, wallop, clobber, whack.

3 informal he got hammered for an honest mistake:

criticize, censure, attack, condemn, castigate, chastise, lambaste, pillory, reprimand, rebuke, admonish, remonstrate with, take to task, haul over the coals, berate, reproach, reprove;

informal knock, slam, lay into, roast, cane, blast, bawl out, dress down;

British, informal carpet, slate, slag off, monster, rollick;

North American, informal chew out, ream out, pummel, cut up;

Australian, New Zealand, informal bag;

rare excoriate, objurgate, reprehend.

▷antonyms praise.

4 informal we have hammered them twice this season:

trounce, defeat, beat, beat hollow, worst, best, overwhelm, rout, annihilate, bring someone to their knees;

informal thrash, clobber, lick, demolish, slaughter, murder, paste, pound, drub, give someone a drubbing, wipe the floor with, take to the cleaners, run rings around, walk all over, make mincemeat of, turn something inside out;

British, informal stuff, marmalize;

North American, informal shellac, cream, skunk, blow out;

US, informal own.

▷antonyms lose to.

□ hammer away

they have been hammering away at their nonsmoking campaign:

work hard, labor, slog away, plod away, grind away, slave away, work like a Trojan, work like a dog, keep one's nose to the grindstone;

persist with, persevere with, keep on with, press on with, not cease from;

informal stick at, peg away at, beaver away at, plug away at, work one's socks off on, sweat blood for, soldier on with, kill oneself with;

British, informal graft away at;

rare drudge away at.

▷antonyms give up on; abandon.

□ hammer something into someone

anti-racism had been hammered into her:

drum, instil, inculcate, knock, drive, din;

drive home to, impress upon, teach repeatedly to, reiterate to;

ingrain.

□ hammer something out

the area chairmen hammered out a national plan:

thrash out, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on, come to terms about, come to a decision on, come to a satisfactory conclusion on, form a resolution about.

▷antonyms fail to agree about.