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Answer for the clue "(boxing) a blow with the fist ", 5 letters:
punch

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Punch \Punch\, n. [Abbrev. fr. puncheon.] A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context countable English) A hit or strike with one's fist. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To strike with one's fist. 2 (context transitive of cattle English) To herd#Verb. 3 (context transitive English) To operate (a device or system) ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Punch is a 2011 South Korean coming-of-age film directed by Lee Han about the budding mentor-mentee relationship forged between a rebellious high school student from a poor household ( Yoo Ah-in ) and his meddlesome homeroom teacher who moves in next door ...

Usage examples of punch.

It will set afire any flammable material around the hole that it punches, including human fat.

Ray saw Keene set his jaw and knew what he was thinking: no one could mix grandiosity and arrogance like Fredrick Van Alman and, yes, sometimes you wanted to punch out his lights.

Keene set his jaw and knew what he was thinking: no one could mix grandiosity and arrogance like Fredrick Van Alman and, yes, sometimes you wanted to punch out his lights.

She punched the button, then reached for her purse and the antacid tablets.

Next he punched the tapered tip of clear plastic tube about an inch in diameter through the aortic wall.

And he insisted on making amends for his imposture the day before an imposture, he pointed out, that had singularly failed due to their collective skills by ordering bumpers of arrack punch.

That you got yon man to dog me all night, put a tot in every one of my pints, drown me with arrack punch, leave me with a whore?

In the morning, she wearily dragged herself from bed, punched air-holes in a bandbox, and stuffed the drugged and heavy cat inside.

Before the bandaging began I took care to make them swallow a good dose of punch, and, then we proceeded to play.

After they had swallowed a few oysters and drank one or two glasses of punch, which they liked amazingly, I begged Emilie to give me an oyster with her lips.

He punched in the coordinates and blinked and fired and felt the shiftings and he was seated in a luxurious chair in a comfortable room.

Cat lunged for the yoke as Bluey turned his attention to the loran, punching in another set of coordinates.

He had his hands to his eyes doing the boohoo thing, and I guess I threw all my fear and frustration into the punch.

The jaw that Harry had punched was equal in size to the cheek where Bradden kept his tobacco cud.

His hard punches drove Brye back, until the older man reeled away, his face buried in his arms.