SPANNERS Antonyms

• an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• carve with a chisel

• a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)

• similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

• systematic training by multiple repetitions

• (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

• make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

• train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

• learn by repetition

• teach by repetition

• undergo military training or do military exercises

• the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

• a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

• the ossicle attached to the eardrum

• a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.

• a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

• a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

• a power tool for drilling rocks

• the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

• beat with or as if with a hammer

• create by hammering

• a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball

• a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

• a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

• hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

• a power tool for cutting wood

• cut with a saw

• a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw

• a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice

• a bony hollow into which a structure fits

• receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted

• a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted

• moral weakness

• a specific form of evildoing

• a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

• a jerky pulling movement

• a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

• twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

• make a sudden twisting motion

• twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

• twist suddenly so as to sprain