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