Synonyms of pounding

pounding 1 of 2

noun

as in hammering

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

pounding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of pound

1

as in shuffling

to move heavily or clumsily

pounding down the road as fast as he could run

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffling
• stomping
• stumbling
• barging
• trudging
• lurching
• hauling
• stamping
• sloughing
• dragging
• scuffling
• weaving
• scuffing
• tramping
• floundering
• shambling
• clumping
• plodding
• slogging
• stumping
• lumping
• lumbering
• staggering
• flogging
• galumphing
• swaying
• flopping
• reeling
• tromping
• waddling
• tottering
• blundering
• careening
• wobbling
• wabbling
• teetering
• doddering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sliding
• gliding
• coasting
• whisking
• floating
• waltzing
• hanging
• drifting
• hovering
• breezing
• wafting
• poising

2

as in banging

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

pounding nails into boards all day long

Synonyms & Similar Words

• banging
• hitting
• slamming
• knocking
• slapping
• smacking
• punching
• clapping
• whacking
• striking
• clipping
• thumping
• cracking
• swiping
• hammering
• batting
• kicking
• nailing
• bashing
• tapping
• licking
• bobbing
• shoving
• pushing
• swatting
• jabbing
• thwacking
• slugging
• boxing
• poking
• bopping
• bludgeoning
• chopping
• clobbering
• slogging
• walloping
• rapping
• clocking
• smiting
• socking
• zapping
• flicking
• stabbing
• clouting
• bonking
• belting
• pasting
• busting
• bumping
• stroking
• tagging
• battering
• beating
• whaling
• pummeling
• biffing
• pummelling
• mauling
• peppering
• pelting
• slashing
• hanging one on
• mangling
• lashing
• buffeting
• stamping
• cuffing
• scuffing
• whipping
• drubbing
• roughing
• dumping
• butting
• jostling
• prodding
• lambasting
• kneeing
• lacing
• creaming
• bunging
• flailing
• levelling
• thrashing
• sapping
• pommelling
• bunting
• cudgeling
• cudgelling
• spearing
• decking
• pommeling
• bowling (down or over)
• felling
• switching
• clubbing
• conking
• caning
• flogging
• braining
• leveling
• flooring
• knocking down
• sledgehammering
• sledging
• skulling
• sucker punching
• beaning
• rabbit-punching

3

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

4

as in drawing

to shape with a hammer

pounding out a depression in the metal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drawing
• hammering
• forging
• fashioning
• carving
• beating
• molding
• working
• stamping
• chasing
• cutting
• forming
• patting
• kneading
• sculpting
• modeling
• modelling
• planishing
• coining
• chiseling
• hewing
• boasting
• minting
• chiselling
• abating
• graving
• sculpturing
• knapping

5

as in grinding

to reduce to fine particles

the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grinding
• crushing
• beating
• disintegrating
• pulverizing
• crumbling
• milling
• smashing
• powdering
• braying
• mulling
• comminuting
• grating
• atomizing
• breaking
• shattering
• fracturing
• crunching
• fragmenting
• splintering
• dashing
• busting
• kibbling
• micronizing