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clobber

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈklɒb.ə(ɹ)/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bbcelorStarts with CEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Word origin

British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.

Used in a sentence

  • So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.
  • In the slang of computer programmers, the second re-entry address is likely to "clobber" the machine's memory of the original re-entry address.
  • Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.

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