Search Result:pounding
Overview of noun pounding
The noun pounding has 3 senses
- pounding, buffeting -- (repeated heavy blows)
- throb, throbbing, pounding -- (an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head")
- 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")
Overview of verb pound
The 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")
- ram, ram down, pound -- (strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door")
- lumber, pound -- (move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room")
- beat, pound, thump -- (move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast")
- pound, pound off -- (partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal")
- pound, pound up -- (shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded")
- impound, pound -- (place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray")
- pound -- (break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone")