The word "hammered" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something was worked on or repeated so much that the result was similar to being hit by a hammer. For example: "I hammered away at the project for hours, until I finally finished it."
The moral and practical imperative to begin to put arms permanently beyond use now needs to be hammered home, particularly by the Irish government.
As he read his speech, crunching the paper hard as though warding off the temptation to improvise, it became clear that the text hammered out with Tony Blair's minions had been amended.
The former prime minister had managed to fire up natural Labour voters, after a month in which it seemed the key theme of the no camp – the danger posed by independence – had been seized by the yes side, as Salmond hammered on the risks to the NHS if Scotland remained in the UK.
She summoned the captain, and Brown, complaining that the staff were rude, hammered on the cockpit door.
Around 90 seconds later the home side were level when David Raven's shot was helped towards goal by Christie and blocked by the Celtic defender Jason Denayer on the line but only to Ofere – and the 29-year-old Nigerian forward hammered it in from close range.
Then there the two years in high school when the bus driver hammered Dr Hook's Greatest Hits every single afternoon, resisting all entreaties to play something else or put on the radio.
Wetherspoon is seeking a bigger share of the breakfast market to offset the effect of cheap booze deals at superstores, which have hammered sales across the pub industry.
Defoe hammered a right-footed shot into the top of the net in the 12th minute for his fourth goal in five MLS games.
Lister points out that, in rural areas, getting in the car and driving to Bath or Bristol may not be an option, as fuel prices rise and pressure on household purses increases; meanwhile theatres in the smaller towns, such as the Merlin in Frome, have been hammered by Somerset's cuts and are clinging on to life.
For the government there are a couple of problematic referendums pending, the most important of which is a potential vote to endorse the latest EU treaty hammered out (minus David Cameron) at the end of last year.
They were hammered by two waves of mass unemployment, first in the early 1980s and then in the early 1990s.
