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hammered

/ham-erd/US // ˈhæm ərd //

敲打的,敲打,锤击,榔头

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
    • : Slang. extremely intoxicated from alcoholic liquor or a drug: On the weekends we usually get hammered.

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Examples

  • But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.

  • Retailers were hammered by the scheme because checks and balances were scant in 2012, when the eBay grifting peaked.

  • As the campaign season heated up, his opponent hammered away on the issue.

  • Cory Gardner and others hammered on stagnant wages for the middle class.

  • Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor got hammered by Republican Tom Cotton.

  • Young Glory walked boldly up to the hut, for it was no more, and hammered sharply on the door.

  • Again the thought hammered home: such a quantity of paper in circulation must affect the national finances of Britain.

  • But they only hammered louder, swearing they were going to break in the door and come in and cut off my nose and ears.

  • Yet mercury can be frozen so hard that it may be hammered out like lead, and sometimes it takes the form of square crystals.

  • Its keel was laid in a cornfield; its bolts and bars were hammered out in a blacksmith shop.