Contact and joining
Synonyms for pound
Synonyms for pound: ram, impound and hammer. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for pound
Interchangeable with pound, one per sense
Audited under pound's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one pound carries in that sense.
- ramverb, in the sense "strike or drive against with a heavy impact"
- impoundverb, in the sense "place or shut up in a pound"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name pound as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- hammerhammer is a noun in the sense "the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)"
two of these come from pound's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
strike or drive against with a heavy impact
Workers pound the fence posts deep into the wet ground.
The true synonym
ram
Same sentence, swapped: Workers ram the fence posts deep into the wet ground.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- lumber
- pitch
- impact
place or shut up in a pound
Pound the cows so they don't stray.
The true synonym
impound
Same sentence, swapped: Impound the cows so they don't stray.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- poke
- bind
- ground
Where pound turns up in the game
pound is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where pound is the trap
- awardnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is laurels, in the sense "a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction", with pound sitting one tile away.
- beatverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is outsmart, in the sense "beat through cleverness and wit", and pound is on the board beside it.
- bendverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is flex, in the sense "bend a joint", so pound is there to be ruled out.
- whipnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is lash, in the sense "a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object", and pound is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play pound
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pound reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
pound is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.