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hammered

adjective as in beaten

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Example Sentences

They can smash someone 4-0, then get hammered themselves the next game.

From BBC

Even if a strong agreement is hammered out, there is no real assurance against backtracking.

The young nation was divided and newspapers and pamphlets hammered home the differences between the two men – in many cases embellishing those differences.

From Salon

Shipyard workers hammered away the last supporting "shores" and wedges, then ducked and dashed for cover as the huge vessel slid above their heads in a spectacular sideways launch into the River Ouse.

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But this one family’s grief is many people’s grief as it’s a nightmare replicated across the Valencia region which was hammered by flash flooding nearly two weeks ago, killing at least 219 people.

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

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