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Pummeled vs Pommeled - What's the difference?

pummeled | pommeled |

As verbs the difference between pummeled and pommeled

is that pummeled is past tense of pummel while pommeled is past tense of pommel.

pummeled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pummel)
    • His opponent was smaller but faster, and he got pummeled .

    pummel

    English

    Verb

  • To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
    • Rain pummeled the roof.
    The boxer pummeled his opponent.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=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.”}}

    pommeled

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pommelled

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pommel)

    • pommel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pummel

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The upper front brow of a saddle.
  • Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
  • The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword.
    • (Macaulay)
  • A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.

    • Derived terms

    * pommel horse

    Holonyms

    * haft, hilt

    See also

    *

    Verb

  • To pound or beat.
  • * 1851 ,
    • I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.