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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abrasion, atomization, attrition, barrage, beat, beating, brecciation, clicking, comminution, crumbling, crushing, detrition, disintegration, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, flutter, fluttering, fragmentation, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, levigation, mashing, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, pound, powdering, pulsation, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, shredding, smashing, spatter, spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thumping, ticking, tom-tom, trituration
Dictionary Results for pounding:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pounding
    n 1: repeated heavy blows [syn: pounding, buffeting]
    2: an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he
       felt a throbbing in his head" [syn: throb, throbbing,
       pounding]
    3: the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the
       sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding
       of feet on the hallway" [syn: hammer, pound, hammering,
       pounding]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pounding \Pound"ing\, n.
   1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
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   2. A pounded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the
      poundings of these rocks." --J. S. Blackie.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pound \Pound\ (pound), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pounded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Pounding.] [OE. pounen, AS. punian to bruise. Cf.
   Pun a play on words.]
   1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
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            With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break
      into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy
      instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
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