to pound
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8.8
- verb
- /paʊnd/
- Specialized
:
embalsar
- The response has been, instead of working to avoid the patents or amortize patent license costs, to figuratively pound the table.
Examples
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Using these gizmos, we won't need to spend all our time pounding keys and clicking mice inside our web browsers.
Blog text (16) -
The workers pounded the water into the canal's compartments using the newly installed locks.
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So we told him, after making one counter, to pound sand.
Blog text (2) -
Sometimes, we pound dry camas.
Fiction book (2002) -
Hagthorpe, keep pounding that waterline!
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Extremely difficult to distinguish in calm waters, it only becomes evident in a vessel pounded by vicious seas.
Fiction book (1998) -
Well, I'm pounding water.
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We hear tithing messages from time to time, but tithing is not pounded into our heads.
Blog text (6) -
He efficiently pounded the water into different channels by adjusting the sluice gates.
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The engineer showed how to pound the water into separate tanks during the construction of the irrigation system.
Synonyms
To divide a river or canal into parts using locks
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.7
When you start something risky or difficult, you continue and do it fully
Stopping a problem early is better than fixing it later
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Informal
4
8.1
A very powerful person or company that others cannot easily challenge
A unit of money used in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland equal to 100 pence
- Archaic
An old unit of weight used for medicines equal to 12 ounces, about 373 grams
- Specialized
A large net that guides fish into an enclosed area where they cannot escape
How Controlled
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the verb pound used for moving water into compartments is to think of 'pounding' as forcing or driving water strongly into a space, so engineers 'pound' water to move it between levels.