poleaxeverb [ T ]
uk/ˈpəʊl.æks/us/ˈpoʊl.æks/US also poleaxto hit someone so hard that they fall down:
Blake was poleaxed by a missile thrown from the crowd.
informal to give someone such a great shock that they do not know what to do:
He was completely poleaxed when his wife left him.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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Making people sad, shocked and upset