pound
/ˈpaʊ̯nd/ verbe C2En français : pilonner, marteler
- To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- To eat or drink very quickly. · You really pounded that beer!
- To pitch consistently to a certain location. · The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.
- To beat strongly or throb. · As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.· My head was pounding.
- To penetrate sexually, with vigour. · I was pounding her all night!
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- To make a jarring noise, as when running. · The engine pounds.
He/she/it pounds · Prétérit pounded · Participe passé pounded · Forme en -ing pounding
Formes du verbe
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- pound
- He/she/it
- pounds
- Prétérit
- pounded
- Participe passé
- pounded
- Forme en -ing
- pounding
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
Led on by some rudimentary aspirations towards right, and encouraged by the judicious stimulation of an occasional ten-pound note sent to him by devious methods, he has once or twice given me advance information which has been of value—that highest value which anticipates and prevents rather than avenges crime.
They were paying a pound a day each—fourteen pounds a week, and this is the slack season.
“Why, I have lost four pound a week.”
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