Synonyms of pommeling

pommeling 1 of 2

noun

variants or pommelling

as in attack

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attack
• assault
• battery
• beating
• hammering
• whipping
• paddling
• smashing
• thrashing
• bashing
• mauling
• flogging
• pounding
• clubbing
• licking
• injury
• pummeling
• belting
• thumping
• batting
• cudgelling
• whaling
• battering
• impairment
• lacing
• buffeting
• drubbing
• harm
• pelting
• cudgeling
• detriment
• threat
• hurt
• outbreak
• turbulence
• damage
• revolt
• upheaval
• walloping
• riot
• pummelling
• terror
• rupture
• onslaught
• tromping
• rampage
• shock
• bludgeoning
• socking
• foul play
• outrage
• frenzy
• paroxysm
• tumult
• fury
• barbarity
• savagery
• rage
• bullying
• brutality
• uproar
• storm
• bulldozing
• violence
• hectoring
• browbeating
• crippling
• mutilation
• maiming
• mayhem
• force
• strong-arming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pacifism
• nonviolence
• pacificism

pommeling

2 of 2

verb

variants or pommelling

present participle of pommel

as in battering

to strike repeatedly

the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy

Synonyms & Similar Words

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