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Synonyms and Antonyms of hammers
- medieval artisans hammered brass into various bowls and trays, which they then embossed with elaborate designs
- hammer a nail
- hammered the ball for a home run
bangs, bashes, bats, belts, biffs, bludgeons, bobs, bonks, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clocks, clouts, cracks, hits, knocks, nails, pastes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slogs, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, strikes, swats, swipes, tags, thumps, thwacks, wallops, whacks, whales, zaps
batters, beats, buffets, bungs, chops, cuffs, drubs, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), licks, mangles, mauls, pelts, peppers, pommels, pummels, roughs
bumps, butts, jabs, jostles, kicks, knees, pokes, prods, pushes, shoves, stamps
bowls (down or over), creams, decks, dumps [slang], fells, floors, knocks down, levels
rabbit-punches, sucker punches
canes, clubs, cudgels, flails, flogs, lashes, saps, slashes, sledgehammers, sledges, spears, stabs, switches, thrashes, whips
- tried hammering the door to wake them up
- the crops were hammered with hail
bashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, birches, bludgeons, buffets, bungs up, clubs, curries, does, drubs, fibs [British], flogs, hides, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), lashes, lathers, licks, mauls, messes (up), paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, punches out, roughs (up), slates, slogs, switches, tans, thrashes, threshes, thumps, tromps, wallops, whales, whips, whops (or whaps), whups, works over
assails, assaults, attacks, besets, boxes, busts, chops, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cudgels, cuffs, descends (on or upon), hits, jumps (on), knocks, lams, lays on, pastes, pounces (on or upon), punches, raids, rushes, slams, slaps, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, storms, swats, swipes, thwacks, whacks, whams, whomps
blackjacks, canes, cowhides, flagellates, fustigates, horsewhips, leathers, pistol-whips, rawhides, scourges, straps
- the critics have long been hammering the stage actress for resorting to the same mixed bag of mannerisms over and over
admonishes, chides, remonstrates (with), reproves
abuses, assails, attacks, bad-mouths, blames, blasts, censures, condemns, criticizes, crucifies, denounces, disses [slang], excoriates, faults, harangues, knocks, laces (into), lashes, pans, reprehends, reviles, scourges, slams, vituperates
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