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sledgehammer
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noun
- a large heavy hammer with a long handle used with both hands for heavy work such as forging iron, breaking rocks, etc
- modifier resembling the action of a sledgehammer in power, ruthlessness, etc
a sledgehammer blow
verb
- tr to strike (something) with or as if with a sledgehammer
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of sledgehammer1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of sledgehammer1
Example Sentences
Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden Wednesday with the elegance and subtlety of a sledgehammer.
"I can only hope it is a sledgehammer attention-grabbing move which then settles down to more specific targeting in the months ahead," he said.
Just one month before the shooting, the Ahearne brothers and Kelly stood outside the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva equipped with a sledgehammer, angle grinders and crowbars.
The "hobbling" sceneāshe uses a sledgehammer to break Paulās anklesāelevated her to canonical b***h status: a cunning, brutal and mercurial harridan who hides her malice behind a folksy faƧade.
I canāt think of a more ill-advised choice than this flimsy film that wields pity like a sledgehammer, that puts no stock in the anger-management techniques that were a part of Majorsā sentence.
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