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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pounding, buffetingnoun

    repeated heavy blows

  2. throb, throbbing, poundingnoun

    an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart)

    "he felt a throbbing in his head"

  3. hammer, pound, hammering, poundingnoun

    the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)

    "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"

Wiktionary

  1. poundingnoun

    An act in which something or someone is pounded

Wikipedia

  1. Pounding

    Pounding is a ritual in Christianity in which a new priest or minister is given gifts by members of the congregation of that church at which he is assigned to preach. The practice can be traced back to at least the 19th century, when communicants of a church visited the parsonage and dropped off a pound of an item, such as "coffee, sugar, flour or honey." When dropping off items to help the new clergyman out, congregants would spend time with him, also getting to know his family in cases of Christian denominations that permit married clerics. The practice of pounding takes place across Christendom, in the countries of Africa as well as those of North America. It is done throughout many Christian denominations, including the Methodist, United Brethren, and Quaker traditions, among others.

ChatGPT

  1. pounding

    Pounding generally refers to striking or hitting something repeatedly and with force. It can also refer to the heavy and loud beating sound associated with this action, such as a pounding heartbeat or the pounding of a drum.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pounding

    of Pound

  2. Poundingnoun

    the act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating

  3. Poundingnoun

    a pounded or pulverized substance

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pounding in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pounding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of pounding in a Sentence

  1. Cliff Lanham:

    I'm looking forward to when those solids light on Monday and you feel that pounding in the chest, the roar of the engines, a lot of people have put in a tremendous amount of work to get us here, and it's going to be an exciting day for us.

  2. Kristen Waggoner:

    These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout. … It shouldn't take place on a law student campus in the law school classroom.

  3. Sheila Tate:

    I remember sitting in the ante room with President Reagan and we were dealing with a few things that had to be dealt with and there was this pounding, and President Reagan said :' They're pounding on his back.' And it was really shocking -- bam, bam -- just to get everything moving...

  4. Maureen Nemetski:

    I drilled a hole into her shin bone and placed an intraosseous line -- a bone catheter -- so that we could inject platelets and medications into her blood through her bone marrow. I can not imagine her parents' horror on hearing the crack of the drill bit into their baby's leg, we took turns pounding on this baby's chest and trying to pump air into lungs that had filled with blood.

  5. Rose DeWitt Bukater:

    My heart was pounding the whole time...it was the most erotic moment of my life.

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