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pound
English
- 🔊 a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs“unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound”
- 🔊 a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- 🔊 United States writer who lived in Europe
- 🔊 a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- 🔊 16 ounces avoirdupois“he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds”
- 🔊 a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- 🔊 the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)“the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard”
- 🔊 the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 🔊 the basic unit of money in Cyprus
- 🔊 the basic unit of money in Egypt
- 🔊 the basic unit of money in Lebanon
- 🔊 the basic unit of money in the Sudan
- 🔊 the basic unit of money in Syria
- 🔊 formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland
- 🔊 break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle“pound the roots with a heavy flat stone”
- 🔊 shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits“The prisoners are safely pounded”
- 🔊 partition off into compartments“The locks pound the water of the canal”
- 🔊 place or shut up in a pound“pound the cows so they don't stray”
- 🔊 hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument“the salesman pounded the door knocker”
- 🔊 move rhythmically“Her heart was beating fast”
- 🔊 move heavily or clumsily“The heavy man lumbered across the room”
- 🔊 strike or drive against with a heavy impact“ram the gate with a sledgehammer”
Spanish
- 🔊 majar to pound
- 🔊 martillear to pound
- 🔊 pilar to pound
- 🔊 aporrear to pound, beat
- 🔊 depósito pound, car pound (UK); impound lot, impound (US)