pummel

verb

1. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

   “Rain pummeled the roof.”

   “The boxer pummeled his opponent.”

   “The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.””

   “The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.”

2. To scornfully criticize someone or something.

   “The politician was pummeled by the media for his controversial statements.”

   ““There are theorists who have claimed that the movie is getting pummeled especially hard by male film critics who weren’t fans of the show in the first place (though that’s hardly true of the Post’s Smith, who boasted on his blog that he’d watched every episode of the TV show).””

   “I will rape your personality Pummel you with my own philosophy”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of pommel.