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
Dzhabrail	-	Chechen
Alia (2)	-	Ancient Germanic
Rudolf	ROO-dawlf (German), RUW-dawlf (Polish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Russian, Arm
ValÉRia	-	Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovak
Mabyn	-	Welsh
Lucien	-	French