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Synonyms and Antonyms of pounds
- give the nail a final pound with the hammer
bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses [British], fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups [dialect], lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, switches, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops (also whaps)
counterblows (or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes (or counter-strokes)
body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercuts
crunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOs
bastinadoes (or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashings
Synonyms and Antonyms of pounds
- stray dogs wearing tags are kept in that pound until their owners can be notified
Synonyms and Antonyms of pounds
- pounding down the road as fast as he could run
- pounding nails into boards all day long
bangs, bashes, bats, belts, biffs, bludgeons, bobs, bonks, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clocks, clouts, cracks, hammers, hits, knocks, nails, pastes, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slogs, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, strikes, swats, swipes, tags, thumps, thwacks, wallops, whacks, whales, zaps
batters, beats, buffets, bungs, chops, cuffs, drubs, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), licks, mangles, mauls, pelts, peppers, pommels, pummels, roughs
bumps, butts, jabs, jostles, kicks, knees, pokes, prods, pushes, shoves, stamps
bowls (down or over), creams, decks, dumps [slang], fells, floors, knocks down, levels
rabbit-punches, sucker punches
canes, clubs, cudgels, flails, flogs, lashes, saps, slashes, sledgehammers, sledges, spears, stabs, switches, thrashes, whips
- during the storm the waves furiously pounded the beach
bashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, birches, bludgeons, buffets, bungs up, clubs, curries, does, drubs, fibs [British], flogs, hammers, hides, laces, lambastes (or lambasts), lashes, lathers, licks, mauls, messes (up), paddles, pelts, pommels, pummels, punches out, roughs (up), slates, slogs, switches, tans, thrashes, threshes, thumps, tromps, wallops, whales, whips, whops (or whaps), whups, works over
assails, assaults, attacks, besets, boxes, busts, chops, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cudgels, cuffs, descends (on or upon), hits, jumps (on), knocks, lams, lays on, pastes, pounces (on or upon), punches, raids, rushes, slams, slaps, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, storms, swats, swipes, thwacks, whacks, whams, whomps
blackjacks, canes, cowhides, flagellates, fustigates, horsewhips, leathers, pistol-whips, rawhides, scourges, straps
- pounding out a depression in the metal
- the tablet may be pounded and mixed in with the animal's food
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