PUMMEL (pummelled, pummelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: pummelled    , pummelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pummel mean? 

• PUMMEL (verb)
  The verb PUMMEL has 1 sense:

1. strike, usually with the fist

  Familiarity information: PUMMEL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUMMEL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pummel    ... he / she / it pummels   
Past simple: pummelled   
Past participle: pummelled   
-ing form: pummelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike, usually with the fist

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

biff; pommel; pummel

Context example:

The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators

Hypernyms (to "pummel" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to pummel his opponent

 Context examples 

We have a saying here, Sir Nigel, that if you pummel Jacques Bonhomme he will pat you, but if you pat him he will pummel you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'm not going to be lectured and pummelled by everyone, just for a bit of a frolic.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The sailors now crowded boldly aft, grinning and shuffling, to watch the pummelling of the hated Cockney.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He who pummelled them might come by such a pat as he would be likely to remember.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)