pummel
to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
Origin of pummel
1- Also pommel.
Other words from pummel
- un·pum·meled, adjective
- un·pum·melled, adjective
Words Nearby pummel
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How to use pummel in a sentence
Similarly, the pandemic has pummeled the restaurant business.
Pandemic Woes and a ‘YOLO Mentality’ Has Ignited a Boom Time for Tattoo Artists | Megan McCluskey | August 25, 2021 | TimeIf Maddow has been pummeled by the demands of a prime-time cable show, she’s done a fine job of camouflaging the toll.
Some deals, like the one that took Richard Branson’s space company Virgin Galactic Holdings public, have done well, but five electric-car companies that went public via SPACs were subsequently pummeled with what Bloomberg called “brutal” corrections.
Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15 billion? | Antonio Regalado | August 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewCarlson used to invite progressive guests on his show, if only to try to pummel them.
Talking With Tucker Carlson, the Most Powerful Conservative in America | Charlotte Alter | July 15, 2021 | TimeJupiter gets hit with plenty of large meteors and comets, Saturn’s rings get pummeled by meteor strikes.
The Perseid meteor shower is about to begin—here’s how to catch it | empire | July 13, 2021 | Popular-Science
Since then, conflict has continued to pummel much of the eastern part of the Congo, but Kisangani has remained relatively calm.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Sunday, Iroquois defenders used them to intimidate and pummel Canadians in a second-half surge.
A Millennium After Inventing the Game, the Iroquois Are Lacrosse’s New Superpower | Evin Demirel | July 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn an attempt to vanquish the monster, the superheroes step in and pummel him, knocking him to the ground.
The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Comic Books as Psychological Treatment | Alex Suskind | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRomney let the Obama campaign pummel and define him as the profiteering-job destroyer from Bain.
Barbie Nadeau on how one botched road could pummel Italy's economy.
The Mafia-Built Highway That Could Cost Italy $471 Million | Barbie Latza Nadeau | July 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSo manage the saddle that with one swing it will 'light on the horse's back with the pummel towards the horse's head (Fig. 207).
The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft | Dan BeardChunky bristled, but restrained himself, though he would have liked to fall on Tad Butler and pummel him.
The Pony Rider Boys in New England | Frank Gee PatchinNever allow the reins to hang loosely on the horses neck, crutch, or pummel of the saddle.
Graceful Riding | S. C. WaiteI would get another herdsman; but as for my wife, I'd tie her to the pummel of my saddle, and drag her like that to my castle.
Eyes Like the Sea | Mr JkaiSomething of this seemed to dawn on Dan Cassell as the boy he sought to pummel dodged his attack with such cleverness.
The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly | Margaret Burnham
British Dictionary definitions for pummel
/ (ˈpʌməl) /
(tr) to strike repeatedly with or as if with the fists: Also (less commonly): pommel
Origin of pummel
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