pummel

present singular third person pummels · US participle present pummeling · UK participle present pummelling · US participle past pummeled · US past pummeled · UK participle past pummelled · UK past pummelled

1. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

   Rain pummeled the roof.

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   The boxer pummeled his opponent.

   The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

   2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 26 Oct 2012

   The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.

   2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer

2. To scornfully criticize someone or something.

   The politician was pummeled by the media for his controversial statements.

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   “There are theorists who have claimed that the movie is getting pummeled especially hard by male film critics who weren’t fans of the show in the first place (though that’s hardly true of the Post’s Smith, who boasted on his blog that he’d watched every episode of the TV show).”

   2010 May 28, Patrick Goldstein, “Critics pummeling ‘Sex and the City 2’”, in The Spokesman-Review

   I will rape your personality Pummel you with my own philosophy

   1991, “Sgt. Baker”, performed by Primus (band)

plural pummels

1. alternativeAlternative form of pommel.