Synonyms of pummeling

pummeling 1 of 2

noun

variants also pummelling

as in thrashing

Related Words

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

pummeling

2 of 2

verb

variants also pummelling

present participle of pummel

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pummeling

Noun

Photos and video shared on social media show debris thrown in the air and pummeling rain as a possible tornado touched down at Atlantic Beach on Long Island's outer barrier. — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Well, that honor goes to the 1885 New York Giants, whose 24-0 pummeling of the Buffalo Bisons has stood the test of time. — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Trump’s critics, especially in Israel, worry that the agreement effectively allows Iran to repair a proxy force diminished by months of Israeli pummeling. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

Men In Blazers Reigning European champions Spain finally looked like tournament favorites, with teenage star Lamine Yamal leading it to a 4-0 pummeling of Saudi Arabia. — David Hickey, NBC news, 22 June 2026

As violent as these bouts get, fighters agree to honor the rules, even mid-pummeling. — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026

This spiritual, emotional, and physical reset is a million miles away from the hormone pummeling of current weight-loss drugs, and the aughts’ detox ethos. — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2026

The increasingly gruesome pummelling continues, cross-cutting with Cassie’s discussion with Naz (Jack Topalian), calmly eating pie on the couch, about what this means to her, and how her wedding was supposed to be the best day of her life. — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2026

Of course, Flextail didn't curl up, back into a corner and submit to a pummeling, counterpunching with its own tiny 1-oz inflator just a couple months later. — New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2026

Verb

Then, after forcing a three-and-out, Notre Dame went to work again in pummeling fashion. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Russia has been pummeling Ukrainian cities with near non-stop aerial attacks, taking advantage of Kyiv’s critical shortages of air defense missiles. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

The weather service says some parts of South Florida could see as much as 8 to 10 inches of rain this week, as storms keep pummeling the region with downpours. — Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026

In both cases, the characters at least initially try to avoid violence, and harbor aspirations more personal than pummelling opponents ad nauseam. — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Over the Fourth of July weekend, a series of storms skimmed the south of the city, pummeling Coney Island and the Rockaways with sand and sending beach umbrellas spinning like tops. — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2026

Instead of pummeling out of the sky in a ballistic reentry, the lifting body landed sort of like an airplane. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2026

Her scrolled embroideries have since been described as tirades, rants, and screeds—no horses or cables, just the language pummeling the eye. — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

Ukraine is ratcheting up the tempo of drone strikes pummeling Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014. — Brady Africk, Washington Post, 20 July 2026