sledgehammer
sledgehammer
Definition
sledge·hammer (slej′ham′ər)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to strike with or as with a sledgehammer
adjective
crushingly powerful
sledgehammer
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- track: Just an incredibly funky sledgehammer of a club track which sounds like nothing anybody from this " pop " world has produced.
Adjective modifier
- proverbial: For a professional it is an essential tool, but it may be the proverbial sledgehammer to crack a walnut for many.
- big: The world's biggest sledgehammer is being used to crack a very small nut.
- funky: Just an incredibly funky sledgehammer of a club track which sounds like nothing anybody from this " pop " world has produced.
- large: The sound of a million large sledgehammers being used to crack one small walnut.
Converse of object
- use: However, care should always be taken not to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
- take: We do not take a sledgehammer to crack a ' nut.
- wield: So its default setting is to wield the sledgehammer at every nut, as it were, that it can see.
Converse of subject
- hit: He sees a man get hit by a sledgehammer, but he comes back and kills his murderer.
Modifies a noun
sledgehammer Quotes
Sledgehammer sentimentality.
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