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were hammered
noun
A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
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Sometimes we'd lose 10-0, otimestimes we were hammered.
The questions for Enron jurors were hammered out by the defense and the prosecution together.
The basins and the bodies of the ewers were hammered from single sheets of copper.
The terms of the truce were hammered out with the former apartheid regime.
Last December, the struggling Scarlet Knights were hammered by Duke, 85-45.
Other regions were hammered by the housing collapse and are having difficulty climbing back.
Mr. Elliott soon agreed to enter into negotiations with the rebels, and terms were hammered out.
State budgets were hammered in the recessions of the early 1980s and the early 1990s.
Telecommunications companies were hammered after Global Crossing, a giant concern, filed for bankruptcy.
Those procedures were hammered out after 9/11, said Nancy Karen, the firm's chief information officer.
Spanish coins were hammered into eighths, and "pieces of eight" were a form of global currency.
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