Need another word that means the same as “pounding”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “pounding” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Pounding” are: hammer, hammering, pound, buffeting, throb, throbbing, bombardment, shelling, gunfire, artillery fire, barrage, battery, attack
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “pounding” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| artillery fire | Large but transportable armament. |
| attack | The act of attacking. He launched a stinging attack on the Prime Minister. |
| barrage | The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written. They are considering a tidal barrage built across the Severn estuary. |
| battery | A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher. A mobile battery of 105 mm guns. |
| bombardment | The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. A steady bombardment of emails and phone calls. |
| buffeting | Usually inexpensive bar. The roofs have survived the buffeting of worse winds than this. |
| gunfire | The act of shooting a gun. The gunfire endangered innocent bystanders. |
| hammer | A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire used in the hammer throw. The sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard. |
| hammering | The action or sound of hammering something. A 7 0 hammering by the league leaders. |
| pound | The act of pounding delivering repeated heavy blows. Unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound. |
| shelling | A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners. The shelling went on for hours without pausing. |
| throb | A deep pulsating type of pain. The dull ache became a throb. |
| throbbing | An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart. The throbbing of the engines. |
| amazement | A feeling of great surprise or wonder. She shook her head in amazement. |
| astonishment | Great surprise. He looked at me in astonishment. |
| bale | Make up into bales. Bale hay. |
| cent | A monetary unit in various countries, equal to one hundredth of a dollar, euro, or other decimal currency unit. The pound is down two cents at one dollar forty. |
| centimeter | A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter. |
| coinage | The action or process of producing coins from metal. The word is of Derrida s own coinage. |
| dime | Street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars. There s not a dime s worth of difference between you and him. |
| dollar | A piece of paper money worth one dollar. The dollar coin has never been popular in the United States. |
| flutter | An act of fluttering. A couple of butterflies fluttered around the garden. |
| gasp | Strain to obtain air by gasping. A woman gasped in horror at the sight of him. |
| gram | A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a kilogram. |
| grandmother | The mother of one’s father or mother. My grandmother is ill. |
| inch | As a unit of map scale so many inches representing one mile on the ground. He inched the car forward. |
| liter | A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints. |
| meter | Stamp with a meter indicating the postage. Meter the flow of water. |
| metric | Relating to or denoting a metric. The levels of branching are arbitrary and no precise metric is applied to distance between the nodes. |
| nickelodeon | A cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin. |
| ounce | A unit of weight of one sixteenth of a pound avoirdupois (approximately 28 grams. Melt three ounces of butter in a large frying pan. |
| palpitate | Shake; tremble. Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman s heart. |
| pant | Utter while panting as if out of breath. His breast panted with alarms. |
| penny | A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit. We didn t get paid a penny. |
| quake | An earthquake. A little quake of delayed shock nudged her. |
| quiver | The act of vibrating. The tree s branches stopped quivering. |
| ream | A quantity of paper 480 or 500 sheets one ream equals 20 quires. He wrote reams and reams. |
| shard | A piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges. Shards of glass flew in all directions. |
| sliver | Break up into splinters or slivers. Sliver the blanched almonds chop the pistachios and set them aside. |
| sterling | British money especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK. This organization does sterling work for youngsters. |
| ton | A unit of weight or volume of sea cargo equal to a metric ton 1 000 kg or 40 cu ft. I feel tons better. |
| weigh | Balance in the hands to guess or as if to guess the weight of. When the twins were born they weighed ten pounds. |
| yen | A yearning for something or to do something. |
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