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bludgeoning
n. An assault with a club or similar weapon. vb. (present participle of bludgeon English)
Usage examples of "bludgeoning".
Never before had I understood that deep-seated fear and wholesome respect which many centuries of bludgeoning at the hands of the law had beaten into the fierce and turbulent natives of these islands.
Add to that the knife fight at a club that took both participants and one bystander, the Jane Doe female found stuffed in a recycler, and your everyday bashings, bludgeonings, and brutalities and we've got ourselves a full house.
Beneath the bludgeonings of Fate, his head is bloody but unbowed, as the fellow said.