Meaning & use
Clobbered
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Hit or struck someone repeatedly and forcefully; informally, defeated decisively.
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He was clobbered by a falling branch during the storm.
Our team got clobbered in the championship game, 42 to 3.
A note on using this word
Originally British slang from the 1940s, 'clobbered' quickly spread into general informal English for both physical blows and lopsided defeats.
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