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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sixteen ounces/.454 kilograms of weight |
| Synonyms: | avoirdupois, pint, troy |
| Main Entry: | pound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impress; make someone listen |
| Synonyms: | din, drive, drub, drum, grave, hammer, stamp |
| Antonyms: | give up |
| Main Entry: | ache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical |
| Synonyms: | be sore, hurt, pain, pound, smart, suffer, throb, twinge |
| Notes: | a pain is something that hurts; an ache is a prolonged dull pain |
| Main Entry: | bang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | moving by hitting hard |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, bump, clatter, collide, crash, hammer, hit, knock, pound, pummel, rap, slam, smash, strike, thump, whack |
| Main Entry: | batter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strike and damage |
| Synonyms: | assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, contuse, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throbbing |
| Synonyms: | cadence, cadency, flow, flutter, measure, meter, oscillation, palpitation, pound, pressure, pulsation, pulse, quake, quiver, rhyme, rhythm, ripple, shake, surge, swell, swing, throb, thump, tick, undulation, vibration |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure by striking |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, bat, batter, belt, box, break, bruise, buffet, cane, castigate, clout, club, collide, crush, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste*, lash, lick*, maltreat, mash, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, punch, punish, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thresh, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, guard, help, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forge |
| Synonyms: | fashion, form, hammer, malleate, model, pound, shape, work |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throb |
| Synonyms: | agitate, alternate, bob, bounce, buffet, flap, flicker, fluctuate, flutter, heave, jerk, jounce, oscillate, palpitate, pitch, pound, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, ripple, shake, shiver, swing, thrill, throb, thump, tremble, twitch, undulate, vibrate, writhe |
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