pounce (on or upon)

verb

Definition of pounce (on or upon)next
as in to assault
to take sudden, violent action against the muggers pounced on the unsuspecting tourists as soon as they rounded the corner

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pounce (on or upon)
  1. assault
  2. attack
  3. raid
  4. storm
  5. strike
Verb
  • Landry is accused of assaulting and shooting the man who was in the home with the woman before leaving Fort Eisenhower.
    Alexx Altman-Devilbiss, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
  • On one night, the dorm becomes the site of a massacre, with players violently assaulting each other while the guards deliberately flashed the lights on and off.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of assault
Verb
  • When the decoys were left in their basic form, they were regularly attacked from below by great whites.
    Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In July 2024, 6-year-old Jaxson Dvorak died when his uncle's dogs attacked him in Lorain.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of attack
Verb
  • On May 2, police officers raided and cleared the encampment, arresting more than 200 protesters.
    Orlando Mayorquín, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Last Christmas, my Southern Living friends and co-workers decided to raid the magazine archives to plan the menu for our annual party.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of raid
Verb
  • After publicly scorching the Park District for their policies, the music festival stormed out of Chicago for the SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Mims swatted Pollock's hand away, then stormed off.
    Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of storm
Verb
  • National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says long-range tornadoes could strike some communities from the Texas-Louisiana border, northern and central Louisiana, and into parts of Mississippi.
    Kristin Wright, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The witness' comments, meanwhile, help shed some light on a tragedy that struck a community still reeling from the 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead and seven other people injured, including a teacher.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of strike
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“Pounce (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pounce%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

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