maul
verb /mɔːl/
/mɔːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they maul | /mɔːl/ /mɔːl/ |
| he / she / it mauls | /mɔːlz/ /mɔːlz/ |
| past simple mauled | /mɔːld/ /mɔːld/ |
| past participle mauled | /mɔːld/ /mɔːld/ |
| -ing form mauling | /ˈmɔːlɪŋ/ /ˈmɔːlɪŋ/ |
- maul somebody (of an animal) to attack and injure somebody by tearing their body synonym savageOxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
- badly
- brutally
- severely
- …
- maul somebody/something to touch somebody/something in an unpleasant and/or violent way
- She was mauled by guards at the border.
- maul something/somebody to criticize something/somebody severely and publicly synonym savage
- maul somebody (informal) to defeat somebody easily synonym thrash (3)
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘hammer or wooden club’, also ‘strike with a heavy weapon’): from Old French mail, from Latin malleus ‘hammer’.