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1. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
   "the sudden hammering of fists caught him off guard";
   - hammer, pound, pounding
    
2. [informal] A sound defeat
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping, pasting [informal], débâcle, smackdown [N. Amer, informal], beatdown [N. Amer]

1. Beat with or as if with a hammer
   "hammer the metal flat"
    
2. Create by hammering
   "hammer the silver into a bowl";
   - forge
    
3. [informal] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   - cream [informal], bat, clobber [informal], drub, thrash [informal], lick [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], wipe the floor [informal], paste [informal], beat hollow [informal], whale [N. Amer, informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], muller [Brit, informal], blow away [informal], slaughter [informal], tromp [N. Amer, informal], trounce

Derived forms: hammerings

Type of: beat, beat out, blow, crush, defeat, licking, shell, trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Hammering