clobber
Example Sentences
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Weatherald was in fine early touch, clobbering a series of boundaries from Carse whose radar was off, bowling too short and wide.
From Barron's
Britain’s economy has struggled to get out of first gear since the crisis almost two decades ago clobbered its huge finance sector.
Charges began to hit the boat directly, clobbering the hull like a hammer on a pail.
From Literature
He put himself on the Ashes radar by clobbering 183 for Australia A during a red-ball series against Sri Lanka A in Darwin this year, with his form continuing in the Sheffield Shield.
From Barron's
An automated software tool made a mistake that clobbered what is likely the world’s largest database, an Amazon product called AmazonDB.
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