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hammer

verb as in strike forcefully

verb as in create

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“Like ‘OK, cool, I have two weeks off, no running—I’m going to start it off with a bang and just get hammered.’”

We wondered which version of Greece would turn up in Glasgow - the side that hammered Scotland 3-0 or the one that got hammered 3-0 by Denmark last time out.

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On that day, the first major final of her career, she had been overwhelmed by the moment and lived every player’s worst nightmare: a 6-0, 6-0 hammering.

I wondered: could this tool the size of a hammer—but with the power of a leaf blower—actually be useful around the kitchen?

Roske pleaded guilty in April, nearly three years after being arrested outside Kavanaugh’s house with a pistol, zip ties, duct tape, pepper spray, crowbar and hammer, along with other burglary tools, according to court records.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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