sledgehammer
English
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A sledgehammer
Alternative forms
- sledge-hammer
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Noun
sledgehammer (plural sledgehammers)
Derived terms
Translations
kind of hammer
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Verb
sledgehammer (third-person singular simple present sledgehammers, present participle sledgehammering, simple past and past participle sledgehammered)
- To strike with a sledgehammer.
- 2009 February 22, Jane And Michael Stern, “Nirvana Express”, in New York Times:
- She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.
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