transitive. To strike hard with the fists or a heavy instrument; to strike or beat with repeated heavy blows; to thump, to pummel; to kick. Also figur…

transitive (and absol.) To strike with repeated blows of an instrument or weapon, or with frequent missiles; to beat continuously and violently so…

transitive. To beat or strike violently. Frequently with down. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To strike repeatedly with hard blows; to batter; to damage. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To strike with heavy blows; to beat soundly, flog, thrash, belabour (a person or animal; rarely, an inanimate object). colloquial or slang…

transitive. To strike with repeated blows; to beat, thrash. Cf. belabour, v. 2. Now Scottish.

(transitive) ‘to beat with thundering strokes’ (Davies).

figurative. To strike as with ‘thunder’. To inflict severe or terrible vengeance, reproof, or the like, upon. In quot. 1818 in physical sense, to…

transitive to strike, work at, as with a sledgehammer.

transitive. To consolidate by pounding; to ram down. Cf. pound, v.1 6.

figurative and in extended use. colloquial (hyperbolical). to beat to a pulp and variants: to beat or thrash severely (also figurative).

figurative. transitive. To beat or pound (someone or something) heavily, or loudly and repeatedly, as with a jackhammer. Also: to harangue…