pound away

pound away (at someone or something)

to hammer or batter constantly on someone or something. The cops pounded away at the poor guy, and then they put him in handcuffs. The jackhammer kept pounding away at the pavement.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Merob	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Antonia	ahn-TO-nyah (Italian, Spanish), an-TON-ee-ə (English), ahn-TO-nee-ah (German, Dutch), ahn-TAWN-yah (Polish)	Italian, Spanish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Ancient Roma
Arijit	-	Bengali
Erminigild	-	Ancient Germanic
Osborn	AHZ-born	English
Sneed	[sni:d]