Something really should be done about the problem, but this is cracking a nut with a sledgehammer.
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Sledgehammer
//ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmə//
Synonyms for "sledgehammer" (39 found)
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Related words (19)
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7 entriesTranslations
90 translations across 66 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- vare noun (kind of hammer)
Arabic
2 entries- إِرْزَبَّة noun (kind of hammer)
- مِرْزَبَّة noun (kind of hammer)
Armenian
1 entries- կռան noun (kind of hammer)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- gürz noun (kind of hammer)
- kumpul noun (kind of hammer)
Belarusian
1 entries- кува́лда noun (kind of hammer)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вари́я noun (kind of hammer)
- кова́шки чук noun (kind of hammer)
Burmese
1 entries- တူမ noun (kind of hammer)
Catalan
1 entries- picassa noun (kind of hammer)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 大錘 /大锤 noun (kind of hammer)
Crimean Tatar
2 entries- toqmaq noun (kind of hammer)
- şoqmar noun (kind of hammer)
Czech
1 entries- perlík noun (kind of hammer)
Danish
1 entries- forhammer noun (kind of hammer)
Dutch
2 entries- beukhamer noun (kind of hammer)
- voorhamer noun (kind of hammer)
Estonian
2 entries- sepavasar noun (kind of hammer)
- suurvasar noun (kind of hammer)
Finnish
2 entries- leka noun (kind of hammer)
- moukari noun (kind of hammer)
French
3 entries- marteau noun (kind of hammer)
- marteau de forgeron noun (kind of hammer)
- masse noun (kind of hammer)
Galician
3 entries- mallo noun (kind of hammer)
- mandarria noun (kind of hammer)
- marra noun (kind of hammer)
Georgian
1 entries- ურო noun (kind of hammer)
German
1 entries- Vorschlaghammer noun (kind of hammer)
Greek
1 entries- βαριά noun (kind of hammer)
Hebrew
1 entries- קוּרְנָס \ קֻרְנָס noun (kind of hammer)
Hindi
1 entries- लोहार का हथौड़ा noun (kind of hammer)
Ido
1 entries- martelego noun (kind of hammer)
Indonesian
2 entries- godam noun (kind of hammer)
- palu godam noun (kind of hammer)
Italian
2 entries- martello da fabbro noun (kind of hammer)
- mazza noun (kind of hammer)
Japanese
3 entries- スレッジハンマー noun (kind of hammer)
- 大ハンマー noun (kind of hammer)
- 大型ハンマー noun (kind of hammer)
Kazakh
1 entries- зілбалға noun (kind of hammer)
Khmer
1 entries- ញញួរដំដែក noun (kind of hammer)
Korean
3 entries- 슬레지해머 noun (kind of hammer)
- 오함마 noun (kind of hammer)
- 큰해머 noun (kind of hammer)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- барскан noun (kind of hammer)
Lao
1 entries- ຄ້ອນທະເນີນ noun (kind of hammer)
Latin
1 entries- marcus noun (kind of hammer)
Latvian
1 entries- veseris noun (kind of hammer)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kūjis noun (kind of hammer)
Macedonian
1 entries- токмак noun (kind of hammer)
Malagasy
1 entries- fampohaza noun (kind of hammer)
Malay
1 entries- tukul besi noun (kind of hammer)
Maltese
1 entries- mazza noun (kind of hammer)
Mongolian
1 entries- лантуу noun (kind of hammer)
Navajo
1 entries- bee atsidítsoh noun (kind of hammer)
Norman
1 entries- marté à deux mains noun (kind of hammer)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- slegge noun (kind of hammer)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- slegge noun (kind of hammer)
- sleggje noun (kind of hammer)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- واریوس noun (kind of hammer)
- پتك noun (kind of hammer)
Persian
1 entries- پتک noun (kind of hammer)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schläaja noun (kind of hammer)
Polish
2 entries- młot kowalski noun (kind of hammer)
- młot oburęczny noun (kind of hammer)
Portuguese
1 entries- marreta noun (kind of hammer)
Romanian
1 entries- baros noun (kind of hammer)
Russian
1 entries- кува́лда noun (kind of hammer)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tòkmak noun (kind of hammer)
- то̀кмак noun (kind of hammer)
Slovak
1 entries- perlík noun (kind of hammer)
Slovene
1 entries- macola noun (kind of hammer)
Somali
1 entries- hadhso noun (kind of hammer)
Spanish
3 entries- almádena noun (kind of hammer)
- comba noun (kind of hammer)
- mandarria noun (kind of hammer)
Swedish
1 entries- slägga noun (kind of hammer)
Tajik
1 entries- босқон noun (kind of hammer)
Tarifit
1 entries- azduz noun (kind of hammer)
Thai
1 entries- ค้อนปอนด์ noun (kind of hammer)
Turkish
2 entries- balyoz noun (kind of hammer)
- madırga noun (kind of hammer)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кува́лда noun (kind of hammer)
Urdu
1 entries- مارْتَول noun (kind of hammer)
Uzbek
1 entries- bosqon noun (kind of hammer)
Vietnamese
1 entries- búa tạ noun (kind of hammer)
Welsh
1 entries- gordd noun (kind of hammer)
Yiddish
1 entries- שמידהאַמער noun (kind of hammer)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Don't crack a nut with a sledgehammer.
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The head of a sledgehammer can weigh anywhere from 1 kilogram to 9 kilograms.
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You don't need a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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