Thesaurus results for PUMMELLED

pummeled

verb

variants also pummelled

past tense of pummel

as in pounded

to strike repeatedly pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived

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Recent Examples of pummeled Israeli troops advanced to its outskirts and didn’t enter, but their strikes pummeled what had been an economic powerhouse of Shiite business affluence. —

Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026 Holland pummeled Sweden 5-1 and has scored seven goals through its two matches. —

Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2026 The powerful waves that have pummeled the coastline will endure the warm-up. —

Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 The older of the two, who was likely in his 20s or 30s, died as Mount Vesuvius pummeled the area with rock fragments called lapilli. —

Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 18 June 2026 According to Israeli and American reports, over the past week, the president forced Israel to abort imminent retaliatory strikes on Iran and demanded that the country restrict its response to Hezbollah fire from Lebanon that has pummeled the Israeli north. —

Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026 The good news is that skies have since cleared, but for much of Wednesday morning and afternoon, residents in Streator, about 90 miles southwest of Chicago and already ravaged by an EF-3 tornado, were getting pummeled with rain. —

Noel Brennan, CBS News, 17 June 2026 The war also pummeled the region's aviation sector, with flights out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a global hub for air travel, reduced by two-thirds and those out of Doha, Qatar, by three-quarters, according to the IMF. —

Scott Horsley, NPR, 17 June 2026 Bitcoin's been underperforming stocks for over a year-and-a-half, and digital asset Treasury companies like Strategy have gotten pummeled. —

Oliver Renick, CNBC, 15 June 2026

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The young activist has relentlessly pounded Espaillat as a moderate on Israel and an uninspiring fixture of the Democratic establishment.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 June 2026
The grand slam could prove to be one of the Sox’s biggest clutch hits of the season after they were pounded in the first two games of the Yankees series.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026