Pound and Swing

Pound

Pound noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.
Usage example: give the nail a final pound with the hammer

Swing and pound are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Swing" instead the word "Pound" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: pounded, pounding, poundage, pounder

Swing

Swing noun - Changing location by moving back and forth.

Pound and swing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pound" instead the word "Swing" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: swinging, swinger, swingle

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

old old pound old swing
good good pound good swing
full full pound full swing
normal normal pound normal swing
Other adjectives: single, crude, simple, heavy, powerful, massive, charged, little, final, last, wide.

Common collocations

body pound body swing body
stick pound stick swing stick
way pound way swing way
blade pound blade swing blade
Other words: fist, times, enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Deadliest Catch Everything Trying to Kill You: Thousand-pound crab pots swing from cranes like giant piñatas, and can fall off the launcher if not properly secured.
  • The Power of Love If somebody would've told me One woman could hold me And leave me weak as a baby I'd have told 'em they were crazy You see, love hit me like a ten pound hammer A ten pound hammer with a five foot swing…
  • Drop the Hammer Buffy can swing it like a ten pound maul.
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