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hammered

hammered adjective: having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object. Also the simple past and past participle of hammer.

Adjective

hammered (comparative more hammered, superlative most hammered)

  1. Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
  2. (Canada, UK, slang) very drunk; inebriated.
    • ‘Yeah, sorry about that, I was hammered.’2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 243
  3. Overcooked.

Also used as

hammered is also the simple past and past participle of hammer.

hammered meaning in Hindi, Marathi and Urdu

hammered in Hindi

हथौड़ा मारा

hammered in Marathi

हातोडा मारला, हातोडा मारलेला

hammered in Urdu

ہتھوڑا لگا دیا

Examples of hammered in a sentence

  • Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open.
  • The fender was so badly damaged that it couldn’t be hammered out.
  • Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.

All 19 example sentences with hammered

Forms of hammered

comparativemore hammered
superlativemost hammered

Words formed from hammered

Phrases with hammered

Questions about hammered

What does hammered mean?
Hammered means having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
What is hammered in Hindi?
Hammered in Hindi is हथौड़ा मारा. See Hammered meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hammered?
Hammered is an adjective.

Words near hammered in the dictionary

  1. hammerbeams
  2. hammerblow
  3. hammerblows
  4. hammercloth
  5. hammercloths
  6. hammered
  7. hammered and sickled
  8. hammered away
  9. hammered dulcimer
  10. hammered dulcimerist
  11. hammered dulcimerists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hammered (page history and authors); hammered (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hammered (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hammered (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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