bludgeoning

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bludgeon

noun

1. An assault with a club or similar weapon.

   “In the fell clutch of circumstance / I have not winced nor cried aloud. / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

   “There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning.”