Translate sledgehammer | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of sledgehammer
noun
a large, heavy hammer used for such jobs as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts. [as modifier] powerful; forceful:sledgehammer blows [as modifier] ruthless, insensitive, or using unnecessary force:under his sledgehammer direction, anything of subtlety is swamped
verb
[with object] hit with a sledgehammer: the jailhouse door was sledgehammered figurativehe sledgehammers obduracy with scholarship and invective
