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Noun pounding has 3 senses
- pounding, buffeting - repeated heavy blows
--1 is a kind of bump, blow
- throb, throbbing, pounding - an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head"
--2 is a kind of pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat
- hammer, pound, hammering, pounding - the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"
--3 is a kind of blow
Verb pound has 8 senses
- thump, pound, poke - hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
--1 is one way to hit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- ram, ram down, pound - strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"
--2 is one way to thrust
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- lumber, pound - move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
--3 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children pound to the playground
- beat, pound, thump - move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"
--4 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- pound, pound off - partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"
--5 is one way to partition, partition off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pound, pound up - shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"
--6 is one way to restrain, confine, hold
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- impound, pound - place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray"
--7 is one way to restrain, confine, hold
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- pound - break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"
--8 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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