hammer out

to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort <the city council hammered out new commercial development regulations with input from residents, business owners, and environmental activists> Synonyms carve (out), develop, forge, grind (out), thrash (out), work out, work up Related Words churn out, crank out, turn out; cobble (together or up), throw up; compose, construct, craft, create, engineer, fabricate, fashion, form, frame, generate, manufacture, mint, model, shape, tailor; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), devise, hatch, invent, originate; accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry out, effect Phrases bring forth Near Antonyms demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, tear down; ruin, undo, unmake, wreck