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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of paunch.

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Examples

  • Not more than forty, with a clear, pallid skin that had never known the sun, he was paunched and weak - legged.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Ive, are the anglers still there? shouts a dauntingly paunched chum as the separated men lead their separately heel-teetering wives back over a sparkling bridge from Durham's centre to the one posh hotel, at way the wrong side of 11pm.

    From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead 2011

  • Wemple went down, returning in several minutes with a tidily-paunched, well-built, gray-haired American of fifty.

    WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

  • Now Carver Smithton has a paunched belly as stout as the beer that fills it.

    Hardly Used Tractors 2010

  • Suddenly there were fists pounding on the tables, rattling the pints of Adnams, as the bald and the paunched yelled in unison, Were so pretty oh so perrrettya-vaya-cant.

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

  • As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours.

    54 entries from April 2007 2007

  • As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours.

    House-Bound 2007

  • As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours.

    House-Bound 2007

  • Can you tell me if Moderator WolfDawgNY at Cleveland. com is bald, paunched, wears seersucker shorts, a “I love NY” t shirt that is 2 sizes too small, wears knee high black socks and beige mallwalkers?

    Community policing: a business somebody should start (hint, hint) « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Newcomb, and the redoubtable Sheriff Slack, paunched and scowling, yet genial enough in ordinary social intercourse, together with three assistants — first, second and third deputies Kraut, Sissel and

    An American Tragedy 2004

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