Crossword clues for mauling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mauling \Maul"ing\, n. A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.
Maul \Maul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mauled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mauling.]
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To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul.
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To injure greatly; to do much harm to.
It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented.
--South.
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.