pummel

[puhm-uhl]

verb (used with object)

pummeled, pummeling , pummelled, pummelling .

1. to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.

pummel

/ ˈpʌməl /

verb

1. Also (less commonly): pommel. (tr) to strike repeatedly with or as if with the fists

Other Word Forms

• unpummeled adjective
• unpummelled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pummel¹

First recorded in 1540–50; alteration of pommel

Word History and Origins

Origin of pummel¹

C16: see _pommel

Example Sentences

Open final delivered a new scenario: Carlos Alcaraz pummeling Sinner right into Sinner’s favorite surface.

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The setup is reminiscent of the early 1990s, when drug stocks were pummeled by fears of “Hillarycare,” the Clinton administration’s proposed healthcare overhaul.

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And fixing a British state pummeled by the shocks of Brexit, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine will take time, they say.

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He was also looking for food, more plentiful then but still dangerous to venture out to get it as Israel invaded and pummelled Gaza.

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Despite the pummeling and repeated warnings that the roughly 1 million Gaza City residents should flee south to so-called humanitarian areas, more than two-thirds remain, according to Israeli military estimates.

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Related Words

• bash 
• batter 
• crush 
• flog 
• knock 
• lash 
• maul 
• pelt 
• punch 
• smack 
• thrash 
• trounce 
• wallop 
• whip