sledgehammer
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Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: sledge‧ham‧mer
Noun[edit]
sledgehammer (plural sledgehammers)
- A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
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kind of hammer
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Verb[edit]
sledgehammer (third-person singular simple present sledgehammers, present participle sledgehammering, simple past and past participle sledgehammered)
- (transitive) To strike (something) with a sledgehammer.
- 2009 February 22, Jane And Michael Stern, “Nirvana Express”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
Adjective[edit]
sledgehammer (comparative more sledgehammer, superlative most sledgehammer)
- Completely lacking grace and dexterity.
- 2015 October 26, Michael Boyer, “Brave new world of cancer treatment revealed”, in The University of Sydney[2]:
- Promising new treatments avoid the sledgehammer approach of traditional chemotherapy in two key ways."
Further reading[edit]
- sledgehammer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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