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
   "The underdog team received a hammering in the championship game";
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing [informal], slaughter, trouncing, whipping, pasting [informal], débâcle, beatdown [N. Amer], smackdown [N. Amer, informal], licking [informal]

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
   "Our team hammered the opposition";
   - cream [informal], clobber [informal], drub [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], muller [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal], wipe the floor [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: hammerings

See also: hammered

Type of: beat, beat out, blow, crush, defeat, shell [US], trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Hammering