Synonyms of mauls

mauls 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of maul

1

as in abuses

to abuse physically

demonstrators who claimed that they had been mauled by the police

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abuses
• manhandles
• attacks
• maltreats
• ambushes
• tortures
• injures
• mishandles
• beats
• slaps
• hurts
• roughs (up)
• wrestles
• wounds
• pummels
• mistreats
• thrashes
• licks
• misuses
• batters
• bashes
• knocks
• fights
• persecutes
• harms
• lambasts
• pounds
• hits
• clobbers
• assails
• oppresses
• lambastes
• buffets
• jumps
• drubs
• ill-treats
• torments
• ill-uses
• roughhouses
• pommels
• wrongs
• gangs up (on)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• caresses
• fondles
• pets
• pampers
• coddles
• fosters
• cares (for)
• nurtures
• mollycoddles

2

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

the irate store owner was mauling the shoplifter when the police showed up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• pounds
• whips
• hides
• lashes
• beats
• pelts
• slaps
• knocks
• attacks
• smashes
• hits
• slams
• thumps
• assaults
• spanks
• does
• punches
• batters
• pummels
• bludgeons
• thrashes
• bashes
• bats
• hammers
• whaps
• chops
• wallops
• whacks
• paddles
• flogs
• lambasts
• smacks
• threshes
• raids
• drubs
• clubs
• belts
• punches out
• slates
• lambastes
• tans
• buffets
• boxes
• lathers
• swipes
• tromps
• wounds
• bastes
• switches
• whales
• works over
• belabors
• slogs
• whups
• storms
• curries
• fibs
• laces
• pommels
• roughs (up)
• clobbers
• messes (up)
• rushes
• swats
• beats up on
• thwacks
• assails
• whops
• clouts
• whams
• cracks
• birches
• cudgels
• straps
• socks
• lacerates
• besets
• descends (on or upon)
• jumps (on)
• lams
• bungs up
• pastes
• cuffs
• maims
• canes
• mutilates
• busts
• lays on
• scourges
• mangles
• gores
• whomps
• leathers
• flagellates
• pounces (on or upon)
• horsewhips
• pistol-whips
• blackjacks
• cowhides
• rawhides
• fustigates

mauls

2 of 2

noun

plural of maul

as in hammers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hammers
• bludgeons
• sledgehammers
• beetles
• mallets
• staves
• cudgels
• canes
• gavels
• truncheons
• nightsticks
• batons
• bats
• shillelaghs
• billies
• rods
• billy clubs
• bastinadoes
• maces
• saps
• staffs
• staves
• shillalahs
• waddies
• bastinades
• knobkerries
• blackjacks
• clubs
• hickories
• rattans
• rungs
• birches
• croziers
• switches
• walking sticks
• crosiers
• crabsticks
• crooks
• whangees