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Another word for clobber

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Verb

  1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows

      1. To give a thrashing to; beat.
      2. To scold sharply; berate:
      1. To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.
      2. To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner.
      3. To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.
      1. To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.
      2. To strike violently; batter:
      3. To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail:
      1. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter.
      2. To render (something) into a mush or pulp, as by throwing or crushing:
      3. To strike with a heavy blow or impact:
      1. To beat or batter, as with the fists:
      2. To cause to undergo harm or loss:
      3. To attack or harry verbally:
      1. A unit of weight equal to 16 ounces (453.592 grams).
      2. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces (373.242 grams).
      3. A unit of weight differing in various countries and times.
      1. A hand tool consisting of a handle with a head of metal or other heavy rigid material that is attached at a right angle, used for striking or pounding.
      2. The part of a gunlock that hits the primer or firing pin or explodes the percussion cap and causes the gun to fire.
      3. One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.
      1. To thrash with a stick.
      2. To instill forcefully:
      3. To defeat soundly.
      1. A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.
      2. A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.
      3. A restaurant having such a counter.
      1. To talk or write about at length or excessively; harp on:
      2. To assail verbally:
      3. To attack with blows; hit, beat, or whip.
      1. To strike repeatedly.
      2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.
      3. To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.
      1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.
      2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.
      3. To damage, as by heavy wear:
      1. To sew loosely with large running stitches so as to hold together temporarily.
      1. A violent physical attack, as with blows.
      2. A strong or cutting verbal attack.
      3. A military attack, such as one launched against a fortified area or place.
      1. To attack violently, as with blows or military force; assault.
      2. To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure.
      3. To trouble or beset, as with questions or doubts.
    Idioms:
    See also:

    strike

    attack

  2. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat

      1. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
      2. To apply by spreading or daubing:
      3. To cause to be blurry or spread in unwanted places:
      1. A purified lac in the form of thin yellow or orange flakes, often bleached white and widely used in varnishes, paints, inks, sealants, and formerly in phonograph records.
      2. A thin varnish made by dissolving this substance in denatured alcohol, used to finish wood.
      3. An old phonograph record containing this substance, typically played at 78 rpm.
      1. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
      2. Any of various substances resembling or containing cream:
      3. A pale yellow to yellowish white.
      1. To beat forcefully; thrash.
      2. To strike with a hard blow:
      3. To defeat thoroughly.
      1. The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
      2. The slaughter of a large number of animals.
      3. A severe defeat, as in a sports event.
      1. To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.
      2. To defeat in a contest, conflict, or competition.
      3. To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress:
      1. To thrash; beat:
      2. To defeat decisively:
      3. To criticize severely:
      1. To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.
      2. To strike violently; batter:
      3. To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail:
      1. A steam-driven machine equipped with a heavy roller for smoothing road surfaces.
      2. A similar machine with an internal-combustion engine.
      3. A ruthless or irresistible force or power.
      1. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter.
      2. To render (something) into a mush or pulp, as by throwing or crushing:
      3. To strike with a heavy blow or impact:
      1. To surge over and submerge; engulf:
      2. To defeat completely and decisively:
      3. To affect deeply in mind or emotion:
      1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue.
      2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm.
      3. To supply with excessive mechanical power.
      1. To thrash with a stick.
      2. To instill forcefully:
      3. To defeat soundly.
      1. To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
      2. To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
      3. To put down with force; subdue:
      1. To destroy completely:
      2. To reduce to nonexistence:
      3. To defeat decisively:
    See also:

    win

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Sentence Examples

  • clobber the lot of these noise facists.

  • clobber the files already present.

  • In the scenario above, the work library will clobber the home library, and you would lose the four new references.

  • And, talking of Baldrick, will someone please buy Mr Chapman some decent clobber?

  • Choose a register which is normally saved and restored by function calls on your machine, so that library routines will not clobber it.

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