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pounding

/pound/US // paʊnd //UK // (paʊnd) //

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to strike repeatedly with great force, as with an instrument, the fist, heavy missiles, etc.
    • : to produce or effect by striking or thumping, or in a manner resembling this: to pound out a tune on the piano.
    • : to force by battering; batter: He pounded his way through the mob. He pounded the door down.
    • : to crush into a powder or paste by beating repeatedly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to strike heavy blows repeatedly: to pound on a door.
    • : to beat or throb violently, as the heart.
    • : to give forth a thumping sound: The drums pounded loudly.
    • : to walk or go with heavy steps; move along with force or vigor.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of pounding.
    • : a heavy or forcible blow.
    • : a thump.

Phrases

  • pound of flesh
  • pound out
  • pound the pavement
  • in for a penny, in for a pound
  • penny wise, pound foolish

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Throw a little vanilla or ginger ice cream in with it, or serve the pears over a slice of pound cake, the syrup soaking into the crumb.

  • Come to beautiful San Quentin, California, to lose those unwanted pounds in a highly supervised, temptation-free environment.

  • Pound for pound, Apple says it has the highest CPU performance per watt, and the four efficiency cores alone match the performance of a dual-core MacBook Air while using much less power.

  • If the chicken is smaller or larger, reduce or add about 10 minutes per pound, 5 minutes per half pound.

  • As that baby packs on the pounds, its body temperature rises.

  • “Sometimes elevating the heart rate will cause additional pounding in your head,” says Crandall.

  • With his Special Forces background and impressive credentials, Pounding “had general written all over him,” the officer said.

  • The officer who served with Pounding said that when he first met him, “he was well-respected and he was on a meteoric rise.”

  • Pounding is charged with one count each of assault, adultery, and conduct unbecoming an officer.

  • Over the course of their affair, the woman alleges that Pounding never mentioned that he was HIV-positive.

  • Both sides settled down to steady hard pounding, and it remained to be seen which would pound the hardest and the longest.

  • It must be bad if I can't control the trembling of my hands, the pounding of the blood at my temples.

  • Clip began on the meat, and while he was eating the pounding of a motor reached their ears.

  • In some part the rock, when pulverized by the pounding to which it is subjected, has dissolved in the water.

  • He could see its little heart pounding in its chest, and the pumping bellows of the pink lungs that surrounded it.