maul
/mɔːl/ verb C2- To handle someone or something in a rough way.
- To savage; to cause serious physical wounds. · The bear mauled him in a terrible way.
- To criticise harshly. · The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot.
- To beat with a maul.
- To play rough, to fondle intensively.
He/she/it mauls · Past mauled · Past participle mauled · -ing form mauling
Verb forms
- Base form
- maul
- He/she/it
- mauls
- Past
- mauled
- Past participle
- mauled
- -ing form
- mauling
From the library
The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, “I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?”
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