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pummelling

VERB

beat, pommel

Synonyms

STRONGEST

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

STRONG

belt clout club cudgel hammer hit lick mash pound ram slug strike swat whale wham

WEAK

let one have it

Antonyms

STRONGEST

compliment fail lose praise surrender

STRONG

tap

Example Sentences

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Denmark needed one goal to guarantee automatic qualification and send Scotland to the purgatory of the play-offs - and they were pummelling Belarus in pursuit of it.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

“Artificial Angels” captures the pummelling wrongness of internet-assisted living in 2025.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025

But he lost his seat in 2015, when his party took an electoral pummelling.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

The astonished Jackall closes with the Donkey, and they roll over and over in the mud, pummelling one another.

From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens, Charles