pummel
verb (used with object)
to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
pummeled
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past participleof pummel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pummel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pummelverb (used with object)to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
Example Sentences
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Leveraged ETFs tied to chipmaker SK Hynix were pummeled Tuesday, amid a punishing selloff in semiconductor stocks this month as whiplash around the powerful artificial-intelligence trade continues.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Our expectations of normalcy were pummeled into submission long ago.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
But the production crisis, which has rocked Hollywood and pummeled its workforce, has reached a critical juncture.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
The Gray Sisters screeched and pummeled each other and cried out for their eye.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
