pummel
Collocations
2VERB + PUMMEL
don't, ought
PUMMEL + NOUN
brother, everything
Definitions
verb
To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
Rain pummeled the roof.
The boxer pummeled his opponent.
To scornfully criticize someone or something.
The politician was pummeled by the media for his controversial statements.
“There are theorists who have claimed that the movie is getting pummeled especially hard by male film critics who weren’t fans of the show in the first place (though that’s hardly true of the Post’s Smith, who boasted on his blog that he’d watched every episode of the TV show).”
noun
Alternative form of pommel.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5Rain pummeled the roof.
WiktionaryThe boxer pummeled his opponent.
WiktionaryThe best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun t
WiktionaryI ought to pummel you for everything obnoxious you said about my aunt.
Tatoeba · #8944206Don't pummel your brother.
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