1. pounded - Adjective
2. pounded - Verb
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of Pound
Source: Webster's dictionaryMuch early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory. Ian Hacking
In touch! There's a slimy phrase. Touch, hell. Gripped! Pawed, rather. Mauled and massaged and pounded by FM voices. Ray Bradbury
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self. Jeff Lindsay
From snow whether cooked or pounded you will get nothing but water. Italian Proverb
A strong man is remembered on the day of the fight, and a gluttony on the day pounded yam is surplus. Nigerian Proverb
When a soup is unpalatable, and the paste of the pounded yam that goes with it is not smooth, that is the time to know a man who loves to eat pounded yam. Nigerian Proverb