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WIKTIONARY
hammered
Adjective
  • ∙ Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
  • ∙ Drunk; inebriated. slang
Verb
  • ∙ simple past tense and past participle of hammer
hammer
Noun
  • ∙ A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • ∙ A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • ∙ The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear. anatomy
  • ∙ In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string. music
  • ∙ A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing. sports
  • ∙ The last rock in an end. curling
  • ∙ A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head. Ultimate Frisbee
  • ∙ Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • ∙ One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
Verb
  • ∙ To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • ∙ To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • ∙ To emphasize a point repeatedly. figuratively
  • ∙ To hit particularly hard. sports
  • ∙ To ride very fast. cycling, intransitive, slang
  • ∙ To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer. intransitive
  • ∙ To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly transitive, figuratively, sports