0 to hit someone or something repeatedly, especially with your fists (= closed hands):
The boxer had pummelled his opponent into submission by the end of the fourth round.
They were pummelled in the second round.
1 to hit someone or something repeatedly, esp. with your fists:
The yam is boiled, and, when cooled, pummeled into a mush to be eaten.
In spite of water pummeling the side of the bridge and lifting several nearby buildings off their foundations, however, the bridge survived.
Fractured urban road surfaces make it thud noisily, while it pummels rather than absorbs, the contusions.
Then the teen magazines were so hungry for the next heartthrob that they pummeled me.
A group of 30 to 40 young people gathered, arguing and shouting, some people in the crowd were angry and others distressed and pummelled him.
True would exact his revenge by either berating or (if confronting a man) pummelling the offender.
The matted fabric was pummeled and boiled repeatedly, resulting in a shrunken and thickened felt.
She angrily pummels the villain, claiming to be enraged about being resurrected as his puppet.