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pummel

/puhm-uhl/US // ˈpʌm əl //UK // (ˈpʌməl) //

殴打,敲打,敲击,捣毁

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pum·meled, pum·mel·ing or pum·melled, pum·mel·ling.

    • : to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.

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Examples

  • Similarly, the pandemic has pummeled the restaurant business.

  • If Maddow has been pummeled by the demands of a prime-time cable show, she’s done a fine job of camouflaging the toll.

  • Some deals, like the one that took Richard Branson’s space company Virgin Galactic Holdings public, have done well, but five electric-car companies that went public via SPACs were subsequently pummeled with what Bloomberg called “brutal” corrections.

  • Carlson used to invite progressive guests on his show, if only to try to pummel them.

  • Jupiter gets hit with plenty of large meteors and comets, Saturn’s rings get pummeled by meteor strikes.

  • Since then, conflict has continued to pummel much of the eastern part of the Congo, but Kisangani has remained relatively calm.

  • On Sunday, Iroquois defenders used them to intimidate and pummel Canadians in a second-half surge.

  • In an attempt to vanquish the monster, the superheroes step in and pummel him, knocking him to the ground.

  • Romney let the Obama campaign pummel and define him as the profiteering-job destroyer from Bain.

  • Barbie Nadeau on how one botched road could pummel Italy's economy.

  • So manage the saddle that with one swing it will 'light on the horse's back with the pummel towards the horse's head (Fig. 207).

  • Chunky bristled, but restrained himself, though he would have liked to fall on Tad Butler and pummel him.

  • Never allow the reins to hang loosely on the horses neck, crutch, or pummel of the saddle.

  • I would get another herdsman; but as for my wife, I'd tie her to the pummel of my saddle, and drag her like that to my castle.

  • Something of this seemed to dawn on Dan Cassell as the boy he sought to pummel dodged his attack with such cleverness.