Synonyms of pummeling

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noun

variants also pummelling

as in thrashing

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

pummeling

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verb

variants also pummelling

present participle of pummel

as in thumping

to strike repeatedly

pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived

Synonyms & Similar Words

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