[
  {
    "word": "hammer",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8h\u00e6m.\u0259(\u0279)/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8h\u00e6m.\u0259(\u0279)/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/hammer-uk.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11091228"
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8h\u00e6m\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/hammer-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=862145",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together"
          },
          {
            "definition": "The act of using a hammer to hit something}}",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The nail is too loose - give it a hammer."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The last stone in an end.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "One who, or that which, smites or shatters.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Tony hammered on the door to try to get him to open."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To emphasize a point repeatedly.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To hit particularly hard.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To ride very fast.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I could hear the engine\u2019s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We hammered them 5-0!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To make high demands on (a system or service).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To have hard sex with",
            "synonyms": [
              "pound"
            ],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Daniel hammered Mary til he came."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "pound"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hammer"
    ]
  }
]