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pommeling 1 of 2

noun

variants or pommelling
as in attack

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verb

variants or pommelling
present participle of pommel
as in licking
to strike repeatedly the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pommeling
  1. attack
  2. licking
  3. assault
  4. hiding
  5. battery
  6. pounding
  7. beating
  8. lashing
Noun
  • Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine included anti-ship missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and more than 200 drones, Ukraine's air force said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The platform largely automated the rest of the attack process as well.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of attack
Verb
  • Baldwin’s post featured a video of the dog licking a cherry ice pop and looking at the rain.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The licking branch is just as important as the scrape beneath it.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of licking
Noun
  • Deputies arrested Asher on suspicion of assault with a firearm and battery causing great bodily harm and booked him into Siskiyou County Jail.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Independent Russian media regularly report about returning veterans involved in assaults, drunken brawls and even killings.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of assault
Verb
  • Just as O’Malley and Rahill’s work is infatuated with toxic masculinity and fratty hopecore, Bensinger’s is obsessed with sheepish dude-empaths hiding beneath layers of uneasy bravado.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The pursuit eventually led officers into the forest outside Sacramento, where 44-year-old Derek Spencer held them at bay by hiding and firing from behind a berm until he was shot and killed, authorities said.
    — Breaking News, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of hiding
Noun
  • Factory targets European automakers CATL announced the Debrecen project in August 2022 as its second European battery plant after its facility in Germany.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Both promise solid battery life and snappy performance for everyday tasks.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of battery
Verb
  • The deaths came amid late-season monsoon storms pounding the Navajo Nation, damaging roads, inundating remote communities and prompting a state of emergency.
    — Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
  • With styles rooted in Texas, Kansas City, North Carolina and Memphis, barbecue often elicits table-pounding opinions.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of pounding
Noun
  • Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing beat out 346 other video entries from 40 different countries with his super-resolution video (above) of the abnormal beating of cilia in the airways of a child with a rare genetic respiratory disorder.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026
  • At the two-week trial, three victims recounted beatings while suspended from pipes on the ceiling and the use of a device that folded their bodies in half at the waist.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of beating
Verb
  • These are just two of the many scenes of destruction the hurricane has left in Hawaii after lashing the state’s western islands with heavy rain, widespread flooding and tropical-storm-force winds on Monday and Tuesday.
    — Liz Kreutz, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
  • This week’s meeting of G20 finance ministers underscored rising global trade tensions, with several countries, including the US, lashing out at China.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of lashing
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“Pommeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pommeling. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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