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Pounding   /pˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
Pounding

noun
1.
Repeated heavy blows.  Synonym: buffeting.
2.
An instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart).  Synonyms: throb, throbbing.
3.
The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows).  Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound.  "The pounding of feet on the hallway"


Pound

verb
(past & past part. pounded; pres. part. pounding)
1.
Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument.  Synonyms: poke, thump.  "A bible-thumping Southern Baptist"
2.
Strike or drive against with a heavy impact.  Synonyms: ram, ram down.  "Pound on the door"
3.
Move heavily or clumsily.  Synonym: lumber.
4.
Move rhythmically.  Synonyms: beat, thump.
5.
Partition off into compartments.  Synonym: pound off.
6.
Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits.  Synonym: pound up.
7.
Place or shut up in a pound.  Synonym: impound.
8.
Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle.



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"Pounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... course it does," said Gilmore mockingly. "Depend upon it there was a tiny chap with a cloth cap, ending in a point sitting up on the timbers among the bells with a big hammer in his hands, and he was pounding away at the bell till he saw us coming, and then off ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn
... tail o' the sands," muttered a sailor to some one as he passed, axe in hand, to cut away the wreckage of the masts, which were pounding and ...
— The Coxswain's Bride - also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... expected; and Balaam, toying with a fern, is at that moment coming round the corner. She sees that he takes in the situation instantly. There is but one way in which they can have fled, and he knows it. In a moment he comes halting and pounding up the slope. He sees their white dresses among the firs. Run, Molly! run, Ruth! Spare no expense. If your new black sash catches in the briers, let it catch; heed it not, for he is making wonderful play with that lame leg up the hill. It is an even race. Now for the stone steps! ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley
... was not what caused the heart of Floyd to thump so desperately against his ribs, making such a noise, he wildly feared, that the pounding would be heard by ...
— The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians - or, Trailing the Yaquis • Willard F. Baker
... the margin, and frequently holds in her hand her camote stick or a ball of bark-fiber thread which she has spun for making skirts. I once saw such a dancer carry the long, heavy wooden pestle used in pounding out rice. ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks


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