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Answer for the clue "Attacking savagely ", 7 letters:
mauling

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Word definitions for mauling in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mauling \Maul"ing\, n. A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An instance of something being mauled. vb. (present participle of maul English)

Usage examples of mauling.

Jondalar was still recovering from the mauling that same lion, or his mate, had given him earlier when he and his brother had foolishly broached their den.

Spears turned at the last moment preventing a kill, terrible illnesses that caused pain and suffering, gorings, maulings, all kinds of terrifying calamities were blamed on angry magicians.

Iza had treated enough maulings to know the girl's wounds were inflicted by the huge cat.

A few gruesome maulings at the hands of troops more alert than that one luckless regiment had pounded that lesson into them.

Often at sights of severe maulings, especially if the bear has fed on the victim, you find a big pile of poop.