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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
  • Despite distancing herself from her Democratic predecessor, Klobuchar faced attacks from Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, who ran in the Republican primary, arguing that her leadership would be tantamount to giving Walz another term.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
  • While mass shootings are still rare in Thailand, the country has seen an uptick in high-profile attacks in recent years.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of attack
Verb
  • Dubiously sourced accounts followed of Australians who died after drinking toad tea and a man supposedly being imprisoned in South America on toad-licking charges.
    — Kimon de Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There’s truly nothing like licking that paper lid, then shoveling that tiny tongue depressor into a child-sized serving of vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of licking
Noun
  • Records show he was paroled in March 2021 after doing nearly three years for assault.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Officers tracked down the other person and arrested them on suspicion of crimes including assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of assault
Verb
  • Risk intelligence gives marketplaces visibility into emerging threats as well as those hiding in plain sight.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In videos posted to his Instagram account, Gallegos can be seen hiding underneath a table as plumes of dust burst in the air and parts of the ceiling crashed into the ground.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiding
Noun
  • Africa’s first large-scale battery gigafactory is already planned in Morocco.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Glowacz was charged with second-degree murder and armed burglary with assault or battery, according to charging documents.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of battery
Verb
  • Keeber’s eldest son is still pounding the pavement looking for work as employers pull back entry-level hiring.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Video captured by a tourist on board a boat in northern Botswana showed the heart-pounding moment the vessel had to outrun a charging hippo.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of pounding
Noun
  • The game was over way before the final buzzer, with Johannes’ third-quarter buzzer-beating heave giving the Liberty a 23-point lead entering the fourth.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The company also reported a solid quarter after the bell, with adjusted earnings per share of 52 cents topping estimates of 45 cents, per LSEG, and $772 million in revenue beating estimates of $758 million.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of beating
Verb
  • Powerful winds and lashing rain flipped over a truck in Zhejiang’s Wenzhou, a video posted on TikTok on Sunday showed.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The president has responded to the MAGA criticism by lashing out repeatedly at dissenters, prompting Greene – once a top Trump supporter – not to run for reelection and Massie to lose his primary.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of lashing
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