pound – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to pound
Participle: pounded
Gerund: pounding

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	pound
we	Let's pound
you	pound

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

strike hard

hit

eat or drink very quickly

drink, eat

penetrate sexually

copulate with

to apply violent force to a person or object

abuse, aggress, assault, attack, beat, beleaguer, bepommel, beset, besiege, bombard, charge, dust up, fall on, fall upon, hit, impugn, invade, lay into, lay siege, let someone have it, light into, onfall, onset, overrun, pommel, rush, set the dogs upon, set upon, storm, strike, strike at, wap, whap

to administer a physical blow

bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, dab, dash, dowse, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, hammer, hit, kick, knock, lunge, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pummel, punch, rap, slam, slap, strike, swap, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, whack, whip, yerk

beat

hit, strike, thrash

pulverize

bray, comminute, crush, powder, triturate

Antonyms

beat

stroke, pat, shelter, protect

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).
2. Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt. See: Latin 'pondō'.

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