"hammer away" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: hammers away [present, singular, third-person], hammering away [participle, present], hammered away [participle, past], hammered away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} hammer away (third-person singular simple present hammers away, present participle hammering away, simple past and past participle hammered away)
  1. (transitive with at) To continue discussing (a subject) or trying to solve (a problem). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-hammer_away-en-verb-80nsHdiB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hammer away meaning in English (1.2kB)

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