pummel
verb (used with object)
to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
have been pummelling
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present perfect progressiveof pummel.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Residents of the small town of Soeda on Kyushu island spoke of their weariness of rains that have been pummelling them for the past few days.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2021
"Ah, it was you, sir?" cried Hodge, with a broad grin—"that Tib in the court there, that Tib about whom we have been pummelling each other?"
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
