Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To beat, as with the fists; pommel: The angry crowd pummeled the thief. See Synonyms at beat.
- n. The act of beating, as with the fists.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See pommel.
Wiktionary
- v. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Same as pommel.
WordNet 3.0
- v. strike, usually with the fist
Etymologies
- A synonymous alteration of to pommel (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of pommel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The end of the handle on a sword is called the pummel," Michael explains.”
“As Agrippa's dog had a devil tied to his collar; some think that Paracelsus (or else Erastus belies him) had one confined to his sword pummel; others wear them in rings, &c.”
“Just a mere elimination of the word 'pummel' is able to fill my mind with wrong ideas.”
“For example: As the barbarian, your first available spell is titled "pummel," and it's powered by four red mana units and does a point of damage for every two red mana pieces on the board.”
“He did mention he'd been back in the ring for a charity event, where he allowed a bunch of little kids to just "pummel" him.”
“It doesn't matter if they are female or male, if a 16 year old can "pummel" a police officer for two minutes - no mention of a weapon here let's be clear - then that person should not be a police officer.”
“a pummel which is made of hard wood, and is something like a large mushroom with its stalk.”
“Some of the info is pretty ugly: "Navarro allegedly told an undercover Fish and Wildlife Service agent that he likes to "pummel" the hawks that he catches with a stick.”
“And really, I think that Fred Barnes and Michael Steele should dress up in Halloween costumes and pummel each other with nun-chucks, for our amusement.”
“We were at his house, in his bed, and for all that I had been enjoying myself immensely up to that point, he found an angle at which he began to pummel my cervix with every thrust – and as anyone who has had her cervix so much as brushed wrong during a gynecological exam, I am sure I do not have to describe the kind of pain I began to experience.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pummel’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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I am : violent
Destructive verbs that speed up entropy. (Still working on definition of what I want; may add adjectives later.)
destroy, wreck, thrash, trash, beat up, annihilate, exterminate, disembowel, eviscerate, disintegrate, explode, bomb and 41 more...
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•Public List: Pommelions and Papermills
Started on pommelion--a place for all those words that feature P, then M, then L inside them. Somewhere.
pommelion, papermill, pimple, pemoline, pall mall, pell-mell, peppermill, paleomammalogy, philomelian, pummel, pimpernel, pimpmobile and 32 more...
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Violent Verbs
Words that have violent connotations.
pummel, grip, behead, punch, bash, slash, grab, break, smash, rip, chop, hack and 2 more...
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pagecrusher's Words
fugu, ilk, rigamarole, superfluous, dearth, sacrosanct, moniker, bifurcate, villainous, onus, brazen, odin and 268 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Words
teeter, headlong, reprobate, canard, ersatz, prevaricate, trenchant, minatory, fatuous, stultify, vitiate, fulminate and 135 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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GRE 3500 P
paean, pall, palliate, pallid, palpable, palpitate, paltry, pan, panache, panegyric, pantomime, paraphernalia and 93 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
cling, declivity, susurrus, caramel, cataract, please, fester, reverie, kerplunk!, defenestration, colonel, ocean and 174 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
Tweets
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