Pummel

English

Verb

Pummel (third-person singular simple present pummels, present participle Commonwealth pummelling, US pummeling, simple past and past participle Commonwealth pummelled, US pummeled)

1. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

   Rain pummeled the roof.

   The boxer pummeled his opponent.

Thesaurus

bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, heat, horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pommel, pound, pulverize, rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌməl

Etymology

A synonymous alteration of to pommel

Translations

To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly

Finnish: nuijia (fi), hakata (fi)

Hungarian: öklöz (hu)

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Dutch

Noun

pummel m.

1. bumpkin