[
UK
/hˈæməd/
]
[ US /ˈhæmɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈhæmɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks
a bowl of hammered brass
How To Use hammered In A Sentence
- It's fair to say we got well and truly hammered last night. The Sun
- Details of how the Pond of Safety Forest will be managed are still being hammered into place, but a skeletal framework is clear.
- Amaiya opened her mouth to reply, but her hands flew to her ears as a banshee wail hammered the sky.
- In the following decade, I hammered federal training and make-work programs in articles for this newspaper and other publications. My Summer Road to Perdition
- He hammered in the nail.
- The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
- We all get totally hammered on tiny amounts of the local rice wine, and stay up way past our bedtimes at the Hoài Café.
- Since 2008, they have been socked with staggering new bills for bank bailouts and hammered by a Great Recession brought on by the very same banks. Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do
- They have further hammered bank profits by wiping out the margin made on deposits. Times, Sunday Times
- The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes. Stravinsky Crashes the Party