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sledgehammer

/slej-ham-er/US // ˈslɛdʒˌhæm ər //UK // (ˈslɛdʒˌhæmə) //

大锤子,大锤,大榔头,大铁锤

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  1. 1
    • : to hammer, beat, or strike with or as if with a sledgehammer.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : crudely or ruthlessly forceful; lacking all dexterity or grace: the artist's sledgehammer approach.

Examples

  • At the most basic, the gear can include items like a sledgehammer, pry bar, and steel pipe.

  • So what I’m suggesting is a self-administered sledgehammer to the ideas or values behind your grievance.

  • Beside the sledgehammer threat of the PPP tax issue, several other emergency programs for small businesses are scheduled to expire at year-end unless Congress extends them.

  • Even before the sledgehammer blow of the pandemic hit publishers, their ad revenue was being eaten away by the global tech giants.

  • I remember seeing that scene with the sledgehammer and being pretty shocked when I was younger.

  • On Thursday Sledgehammer games released a teaser for the “new era” of Call of Duty, which is set for release this November.

  • Democrats, until this week wholly on the defensive, have now been handed a huge sledgehammer.

  • And not only has France failed to mend, it has picked up a sledgehammer.

  • Ugh, that scene where she puts the block of wood in between his ankles and just smashes them with a sledgehammer … Ugh.

  • One was the presence of a German shepherd dog in the laboratory, its head crushed as if with a sledgehammer.

  • Dark, and shining like wet rubber, the shape resembled nothing so much as that of a great, double-headed sledgehammer.

  • For myself, though I received only a backhanded blow on the chest, I staggered as if I had been struck with a sledgehammer.

  • Not one of his sledgehammer smashes reached their mark, and the round closed without a blow having landed.

  • Up went a sledgehammer hand, coated with red hair, to scratch the heavy jowl contemplatively, and Max thought of a gorilla.