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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1977, Betsy Haynes, chapter 2, in The Ghost of the Gravestone Hearth, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, page 20:",
"text": "[…] a bolt of lightning jackhammered across the sky, interrupting his dream.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Beverly Barton, chapter 16, in Grace under Fire, New York: Silhouette, pages 218–219:",
"text": "When he jackhammered into her, she clutched the bedspread and braced herself for the onslaught.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Dennis Lehane, chapter 7, in Moonlight Mile, New York: William Morrow, page 69:",
"text": "His left knee jackhammered under the desk, his right hand patted a steady bongo beat on the top.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move like a jackhammer."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1995, Margaret Wild, chapter 2, in Beast, New York: Scholastic, page 7:",
"text": "[…] he lay rigid, his heart jackhammering, telling himself that there was nothing out there, nothing […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Tom Piccirilli, chapter 1, in The Night Class, New York: Leisure Books, page 7:",
"text": "The paranoia came on pretty damn strong for this early in the morning, his high blood pressure—160 over 90 at twenty-two—jackhammering in his wrists, his thoughts caterwauling beneath the moment.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move like a jackhammer.",
"To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)"
],
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"pound",
"pound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.",
"To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Dean Koontz, chapter 68, in False Memory, New York: Bantam, published 2000, page 611:",
"text": "He […] drew his knees toward his chest as far as the cramped space would allow, and jackhammered his feet into the forward wall of the trunk, which was formed by the backseat of the car.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Danielle Trussoni, chapter 4, in Falling through the Earth, New York: Henry Holt, page 44:",
"text": "Then, before the lumberjack had a chance to react, Dad grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and jackhammered his head into the bar.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move (something) like a jackhammer."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1966 April 15, “Rolling Thunder”, in Time:",
"text": "Guam-based B-52 bombers, newly modified to haul 60,000 lbs. of bombs each, jackhammered a Viet Cong radio and communications center 35 miles northeast of Saigon.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Andrew Coburn, chapter 20, in Sweetheart, London: Secker & Warburg, page 197:",
"text": "He didn’t make love to her; he jackhammered her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 78, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove, published 2014:",
"text": "[…] the thought jackhammered his heart and mind.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound."
],
"links": [
[
"strike",
"strike"
],
[
"repeatedly",
"repeatedly"
],
[
"force",
"force"
],
[
"pound",
"pound"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "jackhammer"
}
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