pummeled in English

verb

1

strike repeatedly, typically with the fists.

Bob did not fight back for the fifteen minutes that the half-dozen men pummeled him

synonyms: batter, pound, belabor, drub, beat, punch, strike, hit, thump, thrash, cold-cock, clobber, wallop, bash, whack, beat the living daylights out of, give someone a (good) hiding, belt, lay into, lam, bust, slug, smite

verb

• batter, pound, belabor, drub, beat, punch, strike, hit, thump, thrash, cold-cock, clobber, wallop, bash, whack, beat the living daylights out of, give someone a (good) hiding, belt, lay into, lam, bust, slug, smite
• pommel, biff

Use "pummeled" in a sentence

1. Diane leaned over and pummeled the pillows.

2. Instead we can feel pummeled by Afflictive thoughts

3. Slypiomedes, towering above him like a titan, viciously pummeled Arestes

4. Theories are constantly being pummeled, reshaped, sometimes Buttressed, more often completely demolished by data

5. He trapped Conn in a corner and pummeled him ferociously for thirty seconds.

6. The victorious get to dream about a winning streak before being pummeled again the week after.

7. He was pummeled by Dallas' pass rush when the teams last played in the 1994 season opener.

8. Perestroika period, that had seen the party increasingly pummeled, was also marked by November riots.

9. Thüringen opened fire first, and pummeled Black Prince with a total of 27 heavy-caliber shells and 24 shells from her secondary battery.

10. Pummeled by dust storms and baked by a hostile sun, the brooding ruins sit in austere silence that is broken only by the occasional howl of a nocturnal creature.

11. Think of the civil rights movement, and the photos of protesters being attacked by police dogs and pummeled by high-pressure fire hoses.

12. These Bigroot geraniums grow in dry shade under cedars on the edge of my driveway, getting pummeled by snowblowers and the occasional car, but look no worse for the wear

13. KU was Bludgeoned early and often, unable to pick itself up off the mat — and, for good measure, pummeled while it was down there — in a season-ending 85 …

14. When the major powers continued to support the abusive Saudi coalition in Yemen, where civilians pummeled by Saudi-led aerial attacks and a blockade faced cholera and acute malnutrition, the Netherlands stepped in to lead the demand for a UN investigation.

15. ‘One of my pet Aversions is sitting cooped up in an aircraft in a not too spacious or comfortable seat and being pummeled.’ ‘This led to their conclusion that odors associated with toxicity, like warning colors, can have a special intrinsic warning value and trigger innate Aversions.’