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1. The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
   "the sudden hammering of fists caught him off guard"
   - hammer, pound, pounding

1. Beat with or as if with a hammer
   "hammer the metal flat"
    
2. Create by hammering
   "hammer the silver into a bowl"
   - forge
    
3. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   - cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, trounce, slaughter, beat hollow, muller [Brit], smoke [N. Amer], wipe the floor

Derived forms: hammerings

See also: hammered

Type of: beat, beat out, blow, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

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