pummel
verb (used with object)
to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
pummels
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present tense formof pummel (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Santi, meanwhile, knows he’s good; when he pummels a ball, it sounds like a sonic boom.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
And severe weather pummels both the Northeast and West Coast.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Lethal landslides are common in the area when heavy monsoon rain pummels Myanmar between May and October.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
The sheer force of their thousand-pound bodies pummels the dirt track's hazardous slings — but only after first funneling through the narrow cabling of their spindly forelimb ligaments.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
The waterfall pummels the water around us, and a lifeguard ushers us to the hill.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
