clobbered; clobbering
ˈklä-b(ə-)riŋ 
1
: to pound mercilessly
also
: to hit with force
clobber a home run
2
a
: to defeat overwhelmingly
b
: to have a strongly negative impact on
businesses clobbered by the recession
c
: to criticize harshly
Examples of clobber in a Sentence
Noun
Just dump your clobber anywhere.
still wearing the same clobber he wore as an undergrad at Cambridge
Verb
If you say anything I'll clobber you.
We clobbered them in our last game.
Businesses are being clobbered by the bad economy.
Recent Examples on the Web
EW.com, 7 June 2024
Neat, said engineers at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, who’ve invented a clever kind of material based on the mantis shrimp’s clobber-sticks.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 22 Feb. 2021
Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 Mar. 2025
President Donald Trump was at Super Bowl LIX last weekend to see the Philadelphia Eagles clobber the Kansas City Chiefs, and on Sunday, he is expected to attend NASCAR’s Super Bowl – the Daytona 500.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Juno Temple’s character Dot nearly clobbers Gator with a nail bat — an object often associated with your Stranger Things character Steve Harrington — during their Halloween brawl in episode 4.
—EW.com, 7 June 2024
Neat, said engineers at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, who’ve invented a clever kind of material based on the mantis shrimp’s clobber-sticks.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 22 Feb. 2021
Verb
This all comes as the tourism industry continues to dig out of the hole left by the COVID-19 pandemic, which clobbered the hospitality sector.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 Mar. 2025
President Donald Trump was at Super Bowl LIX last weekend to see the Philadelphia Eagles clobber the Kansas City Chiefs, and on Sunday, he is expected to attend NASCAR’s Super Bowl – the Daytona 500.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Clobber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clobber. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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