Beaten badly

Usage examples of mauled.

A Talent mechanic at the big Mid-Town Parking Complex was seriously mauled and shoved into the boot of the car he'd been servicing.

They found Ted Tubberman’s mauled and gnawed body pitifully sprawled outside his small laboratory.

But he was also a hunter, and it was while he was hunting that he was mauled by bears and killed.

She went out that night, mauled a young boy to death, and devoured him.

The lion that killed Thonolan, and mauled Jondalar, was the lion I raised.

I was mauled by a cave lion, and would have died on the steppes far to the east, but Ayla found me, treated my wounds, and saved my life.

Except for the scars, you would hardly know I was mauled by that lion.

They'd been mauled and battered, but they were as big as the TFN's OWP-6s.

All the targeted cruisers died, the superdreadnoughts were savagely mauled, and even as the Fleet reeled under the unexpected blow, fresh capital ships charged through the warp point at impossible speeds.

Until that point, however, any army marching into Oriosa would get mauled, which was to her benefit.

If we can’t get past the shipyards, or if we are mauled in doing so, slipping a small force into Aurolan through your pass might just work.

Just as Erlestoke’s force had been mauled, so hers would have been, which would have left in question any ability to continue the fight.

His own men had been too badly mauled to set aside their own despair and disarray.

Unfortunately, the City Battalions and Mogaba’s Second Territorial elite mauled them right back.