sledgehammered

verb

Definition of sledgehammerednext
past tense of sledgehammer
as in stabbed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sledgehammered
  1. stabbed
  2. slashed
  3. sapped
  4. thrashed
  5. whipped
  6. switched
Verb
  • She had been beaten, raped and stabbed.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • One individual then took out a knife and stabbed him in the chest and an 18-year-old in the arm.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of stabbed
Verb
  • The company slashed about 21,000 jobs and rebuilt its advertising systems with the help of new advancements in artificial intelligence.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Similarly, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has slashed funding for DEI and made great strides in promoting academic freedom.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of slashed
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  • Its backers in Moscow, Tehran and Beirut were unable or unwilling to respond, perhaps because their attention and resources having been sapped by wars in Ukraine, Lebanon, Gaza and elsewhere.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The war in Ukraine sapped Russia’s strength and diminished its ability to maintain its defense of the Assad regime just as surely as the successful Russian defense of Stalingrad taxed Germany’s military might, contributing to its loss of North Africa in 1943.
    Bryce Hoffman, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of sapped
Verb
  • Remarkably, Barcelona has averaged more than five second-half goals per game in its last five outings, having recently thrashed Granada, Madrid CFF and Espanyol.
    Jamie Barton, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • With 10 men, Barca succumbed to their visitors and were thrashed 4-1 on the night resulting in a 6-4 aggregate score overall.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of thrashed
Verb
  • The Franklin Fire ignited Monday night after days of extremely dangerous fire conditions when Santa Ana winds whipped across the region.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Before turning back, many of them whipped out their phones to snap a photo of the divers.
    Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of whipped
Verb
  • Purchase several resin or plastic plant saucers that can be switched out each morning so the birds have fresh water daily.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Payload was Amazon’s two test Project Kuiper satellites that were set to fly on ULA’s first Vulcan Centaur rocket, but switched to one of the nine Atlas rockets Amazon had previously purchased from ULA as Vulcan had been delayed to no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of switched
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