hammer

The word “hammer” has 2 syllables: ham-mer

It's pronounced as /ˈhæmər/


What is synonym and antonym for hammer?

In the thesaurus, “hammer” has 259 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for hammer along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for hammer

  • abate
  • abuse
  • admonish
  • assail
  • assault
  • attack
  • bad-mouth
  • bang
  • bash
  • baste
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • baton
  • batter
  • bawl out
  • bean
  • bear down
  • beat
  • beat up on
  • beetle
  • belabor
  • belittle
  • belt
  • berate
  • beset
  • biff
  • billy
  • billy club
  • birch
  • blackjack
  • blame
  • blast
  • bludgeon
  • boast
  • bob
  • bonk
  • bop
  • box
  • brain
  • buffet
  • bump
  • bung
  • bung up
  • bunt
  • bust
  • butt
  • call down
  • cane
  • carve
  • castigate
  • censure
  • chase
  • chastise
  • chew out
  • chide
  • chisel
  • chop
  • clap
  • clip
  • clobber
  • clock
  • clout
  • club
  • coin
  • condemn
  • conk
  • cowhide
  • crabstick
  • crack
  • cream
  • create
  • criticize
  • crook
  • crosier
  • crozier
  • crucify
  • cudgel
  • cuff
  • curry
  • cut
  • deck
  • defeat
  • denounce
  • dis
  • disparage
  • diss
  • do
  • draw
  • dress down
  • drive
  • drub
  • dump
  • excoriate
  • fashion
  • fault
  • fell
  • fib
  • flagellate
  • flail
  • flay
  • flick
  • flog
  • floor
  • forge
  • form
  • fustigate
  • gavel
  • gore
  • grave
  • hang one on
  • harangue
  • hew
  • hickory
  • hide
  • hit
  • horsewhip
  • jab
  • jaw
  • jostle
  • keelhaul
  • kick
  • knap
  • knead
  • knee
  • knobkerrie
  • knock
  • knock down
  • lace
  • lacerate
  • lam
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lather
  • lay into
  • lay on
  • leather
  • lecture
  • level
  • lick
  • mace
  • maim
  • make
  • mallet
  • mangle
  • maul
  • mint
  • mock
  • model
  • mold
  • mutilate
  • nail
  • nightstick
  • paddle
  • pan
  • paste
  • pat
  • pelt
  • pepper
  • pistol-whip
  • planish
  • poke
  • pommel
  • pound
  • prod
  • pummel
  • punch
  • punch out
  • push
  • put down
  • rabbit-punch
  • rag
  • raid
  • rap
  • rate
  • rattan
  • rawhide
  • rebuke
  • reprehend
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprove
  • revile
  • ridicule
  • rod
  • rough
  • rung
  • rush
  • sap
  • scoff
  • scold
  • score
  • scorn
  • scourge
  • scuff
  • sculpt
  • sculpture
  • shape
  • shillalah
  • shillelagh
  • shove
  • skull
  • slam
  • slap
  • slash
  • slate
  • sledge
  • sledgehammer
  • slog
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smite
  • sock
  • spank
  • spear
  • stab
  • staff
  • stamp
  • stave
  • storm
  • strap
  • strike
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • swat
  • swipe
  • switch
  • tag
  • take to task
  • tan
  • tap
  • thrash
  • thresh
  • thump
  • thwack
  • tongue-lash
  • tromp
  • trounce
  • truncheon
  • upbraid
  • vituperate
  • waddy
  • walking stick
  • wallop
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whangee
  • whap
  • whip
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whup
  • work
  • work over
  • wound
  • zap

Antonyms for hammer

Meanings of hammer

  • noun
    1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
    2. The act of using a hammer to hit something}}.
    3. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
    4. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
    5. In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
    6. A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
    7. The last stone in an end.
    8. (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
    9. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
    10. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
  • verb
    1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
    2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
    3. To emphasize a point repeatedly.
    4. To hit particularly hard.
    5. To ride very fast.
    6. To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    7. To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
    8. To make high demands on (a system or service).
    9. To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
    10. To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
    11. To have hard sex with.

Example Sentences

  • He wielded the hammer with precision, driving the nails deep into the wood.
  • The blacksmith's strong arms swung the hammer rhythmically, shaping the hot metal on the anvil.
  • Despite the rain, the construction workers continued to hammer away, determined to finish the project on time.
  • The judge's gavel came down with a resounding hammer, signaling the end of the trial.
  • She used the hammer to break open the stubborn nut, finally revealing the delicious kernel inside.

On this page you'll find 268 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hammer, such as: abate, abuse, admonish, approve, assail, assault, attack.

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fabricate

  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cobble up
  • coin
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  • compose
  • conceive
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  • confect
  • constitute
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  • fit together
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  • found
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  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
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  • inaugurate
  • initiate
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  • jive
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  • kid
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  • libel
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  • make
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  • manufacture
  • mint
  • misguide
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  • mix
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  • palter
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  • produce
  • put together
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  • set up
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  • traduce
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  • turn out
  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
  • whomp up

kayo

  • KO
  • TKO
  • X out
  • abolish
  • annihilate
  • annul
  • bang
  • bash
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • battering
  • beat
  • beating
  • belt
  • biff
  • black out
  • blot out
  • blow
  • bludgeon
  • bludgeoning
  • blue pencil
  • body blow
  • bop
  • box
  • buffet
  • bust
  • call all bets off
  • call off
  • cancel
  • chop
  • clap
  • clip
  • clobber
  • clobbering
  • clout
  • cold pack
  • coldcock
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • coup de grace
  • crack
  • cruncher
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • cut
  • dab
  • delete
  • discard
  • do in
  • douse
  • down
  • drop
  • drubbing
  • efface
  • eradicate
  • erase
  • exclude
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • extirpate
  • fell
  • fillip
  • final blow
  • finishing blow
  • flogging
  • floor
  • gut
  • hack
  • hammer
  • hammering
  • hamstring
  • hand
  • haymaker
  • hearts and flowers
  • hit
  • hook
  • jab
  • kick
  • kill
  • knee
  • knock
  • knock down
  • knock off
  • knock out
  • knock over
  • knock senseless
  • knockdown
  • knockout
  • knockout blow
  • lambasting
  • larrup
  • lash
  • launder
  • lay out
  • left
  • level
  • lick
  • licking
  • omit
  • one-two
  • overthrow
  • paste
  • pasting
  • pelt
  • pick
  • plump
  • poke
  • pound
  • pounding
  • prostrate
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • raze
  • remove
  • right
  • right-hander
  • roundhouse
  • scrub
  • shiver
  • sidewinder
  • slam
  • slap
  • slog
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smite
  • sock
  • spank
  • stinger
  • strike out
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • swat
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • take out
  • technical knockout
  • thrashing
  • throw down
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • topple
  • trim
  • uppercut
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whop
  • wipe out
  • zap

keelhaul

  • abuse
  • admonish
  • assail
  • attack
  • bad-mouth
  • baste
  • bawl out
  • belittle
  • berate
  • blame
  • blast
  • call down
  • castigate
  • censure
  • chastise
  • chew out
  • chide
  • condemn
  • criticize
  • crucify
  • denounce
  • dis
  • disparage
  • diss
  • dress down
  • excoriate
  • fault
  • flay
  • hammer
  • harangue
  • jaw
  • knock
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lay into
  • lecture
  • mock
  • pan
  • put down
  • rag
  • rate
  • rebuke
  • reprehend
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprove
  • revile
  • ridicule
  • scoff
  • scold
  • score
  • scorn
  • scourge
  • slam
  • take to task
  • tongue-lash
  • upbraid
  • vituperate

lace

  • add
  • adulterate
  • alternate
  • amalgamate
  • aromatize
  • assail
  • assault
  • assimilate
  • attach
  • attack
  • attenuate
  • band
  • banding
  • bash
  • baste
  • bat
  • batter
  • beat
  • beat up on
  • befoul
  • belabor
  • belt
  • beset
  • bind
  • birch
  • blackjack
  • blend
  • bludgeon
  • border
  • box
  • braid
  • braiding
  • buffet
  • bung up
  • bungee cord
  • bust
  • cable
  • cane
  • cheapen
  • chop
  • clobber
  • close
  • clout
  • club
  • combine
  • commingle
  • contaminate
  • cord
  • cornrow
  • corrupt
  • counterfeit
  • cowhide
  • crack
  • crochet
  • cudgel
  • cuff
  • curry
  • cut
  • debase
  • defile
  • degrade
  • dilute
  • dirty
  • do
  • do up
  • doctor
  • dreadlock
  • drub
  • edging
  • embody
  • enhance
  • enlace
  • enrich
  • entwine
  • envenom
  • extend
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fib
  • filigree
  • flagellate
  • flavor
  • flog
  • fortify
  • foul
  • fudge
  • fuse
  • fustigate
  • gore
  • guy
  • halyard
  • hammer
  • hide
  • hit
  • horsewhip
  • implicate
  • incorporate
  • infect
  • insert
  • integrate
  • interlace
  • intermingle
  • intersperse
  • intertwine
  • intertwist
  • interweave
  • inweave
  • join
  • juxtapose
  • knock
  • lacerate
  • lacing
  • lam
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lanyard
  • lash
  • lather
  • lay on
  • leather
  • lick
  • line
  • link
  • load
  • maim
  • mangle
  • manipulate
  • maul
  • merge
  • mesh
  • mingle
  • misrepresent
  • mix
  • moderate
  • mutilate
  • net
  • netting
  • openwork
  • ornament
  • paddle
  • paste
  • pelt
  • pepper
  • perfume
  • pigtail
  • pistol-whip
  • plait
  • plat
  • pleach
  • ply
  • poison
  • pollute
  • pommel
  • pound
  • pummel
  • punch
  • punch out
  • qualify
  • queue
  • raid
  • rawhide
  • rickrack
  • ricrac
  • rope
  • rush
  • salt
  • sauce
  • savor
  • savour
  • scourge
  • season
  • shoelace
  • slam
  • slap
  • slate
  • slog
  • smack
  • smash
  • sock
  • soil
  • sophisticate
  • spank
  • spice
  • spike
  • spoil
  • stay
  • storm
  • strap
  • string
  • stripe
  • sully
  • swat
  • swipe
  • switch
  • taint
  • tan
  • tatting
  • temper
  • thin
  • thong
  • thrash
  • thread
  • threadwork
  • thresh
  • thump
  • thwack
  • tie
  • tissue
  • trim
  • trimming
  • tromp
  • twine
  • twist
  • wallop
  • water down
  • weaken
  • weave
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipcord
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whup
  • wire
  • work over
  • wound
  • wreathe
  • writhe

mace

  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • baton
  • beetle
  • billy
  • billy club
  • birch
  • blackjack
  • bludgeon
  • cane
  • club
  • crabstick
  • crook
  • crosier
  • crozier
  • cudgel
  • gavel
  • hammer
  • hickory
  • knobkerrie
  • mallet
  • maul
  • nightstick
  • rattan
  • rod
  • rung
  • sap
  • shillalah
  • shillelagh
  • sledgehammer
  • spice
  • staff
  • stave
  • switch
  • truncheon
  • waddy
  • walking stick
  • whangee

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