Synonyms of pummeling

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noun

variants also pummelling

as in thrashing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thrashing
• pounding
• hammering
• bashing
• bludgeoning
• licking
• battering
• clobbering
• blow
• thump
• hit
• slap
• punch
• lambasting
• buffet
• knock
• encounter
• rap
• contact
• meeting
• shock
• collision
• impact
• touch
• jolt
• impingement
• concussion
• kick
• bump
• wallop
• crash
• slam
• jounce
• strike
• jar
• smash

pummeling

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verb

variants also pummelling

present participle of pummel

as in thumping

to strike repeatedly

pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thumping
• pounding
• licking
• whipping
• beating
• pelting
• slapping
• hitting
• punching
• battering
• attacking
• knocking
• slamming
• mauling
• thrashing
• spanking
• lashing
• bludgeoning
• hammering
• bashing
• smashing
• smacking
• swatting
• assaulting
• whacking
• hiding
• paddling
• drubbing
• walloping
• buffeting
• flogging
• lambasting
• clubbing
• batting
• slogging
• lathering
• belting
• punching out
• working over
• switching
• whopping
• whupping
• boxing
• whapping
• slating
• tanning
• currying
• threshing
• whaling
• tromping
• fibbing
• basting
• roughing (up)
• belaboring
• messing (up)
• thwacking
• doing
• clobbering
• pommelling
• lacing
• chopping
• pommeling
• assailing
• raiding
• cracking
• storming
• birching
• rushing
• swiping
• socking
• clouting
• beating up on
• cudgeling
• cudgelling
• bunging up
• cuffing
• strapping
• descending (on or upon)
• busting
• pasting
• jumping (on)
• lacerating
• besetting
• whamming
• scourging
• flagellating
• whomping
• laying on
• wounding
• caning
• pouncing (on or upon)
• pistol-whipping
• lamming
• maiming
• mutilating
• mangling
• leathering
• horsewhipping
• goring
• blackjacking
• fustigating
• cowhiding
• rawhiding