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pounding out

pounding out is the present participle and gerund of pound out.

Meaning of pound out

Verb

pound out (third-person singular simple present pounds out, present participle pounding out, simple past and past participle pounded out)

  1. (transitive) To perform (a song or piece of music) very loudly.
  2. (transitive) To type on a keyboard by writing quickly; to write quickly or compose a finished piece of writing quickly.
  3. (transitive) To achieve (something) using strength or endurance.

Questions about pounding out

What is pounding out the present participle and gerund of?
Pounding out is the present participle and gerund of pound out.

Words near pounding out in the dictionary

  1. pounding
  2. pounding a beat
  3. pounding block
  4. pounding blocks
  5. pounding dirt
  6. pounding out
  7. pounding salt
  8. pounding sand
  9. pounding sand into a rathole
  10. pounding the pavement
  11. poundingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pounding out (page history and authors); pound out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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