Definition of "pummelling" [pummelling]

• Present participle of pummel. (verb)
• A beating. (noun)

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• "That's right, it's Byrne / Morgan, with the odious former Mirror editor on the receiving end of a verbal pummelling from the Irish stand-up."
• "Meanwhile, Frank Mir's rapidly swelling face is applying for its own area code as he he wins the Rocky Dennis look-alike contest, thanks to a thorough pummelling."
• "At Wembley, still seeking low-gear fitness, at times he brought to mind not so much a young Alan Shearer as the old Alan Shearer, a single pummelling shooting boot, to be unpackaged and wheeled about the park like a rust-bound first world war field gun."