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hammer | divorce |

As a verb hammer

is .

As a noun divorce is

a divorced man.

hammer

English

(wikipedia hammer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • (anatomy) The malleus of the ear.
  • (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • (curling) The last rock in an end.
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
  • Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
    • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  • * J. H. Newman
    • He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

    Derived terms

    * ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammer

    See also

    * mallet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • * Dryden
    • hammered money
  • (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • (sports) To hit particularly hard.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd. }}
  • To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  • (figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
    • We hammered them 5-0!

    Derived terms

    * (adjective) * hammerer * (verb)

    See also

    * hammer out

    divorce

    English

    (wikipedia divorce)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The legal dissolution of a marriage.
    • Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
  • A separation of connected things.
    • The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to make divorce of their incorporate league
  • (obsolete) That which separates.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (legal dissolution of a marriage) divorcement * (separation of connected things) partition, separation, severance

    Antonyms

    * marriage

    Derived terms

    * velvet divorce

    Verb

    (divorc)
  • To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
    • A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
  • To end one's own marriage in this way.
    • Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
  • To separate something that was connected.
    • The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
  • To obtain a legal divorce.
    • Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.

    Synonyms

    * (to legally dissolve a marriage) split up * (to separate something that was connected) disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separate

    Antonyms

    * marry

    Derived terms

    * innocently divorced